Rather than seeing themselves as the arbiters of divine precepts, Supreme Court justices after World War II generally understood that constitutional jurisprudence must respond to the realities of the day. Yet today's conservatives have seized on the legacy of one of the few justices who did not.
considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.
blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric for the rapid rise of the authoritarian populist José Antonio Kast.
纽黑文—今年是中国的纪念大年。5月4日,中国将纪念五四运动一百周年。五四运动是一场学生领导的示威运动,发生在1919年的北京天安门,标志着中国民族主义的诞生。一个月后的6月4日是暴力镇压支持民主的学生示威事件30周年,地点也是天安门。相反,这个里程碑事件不会得到中国官方承认,更不会得到纪念。
1919年的游行刻在了天安门广场的人民英雄纪念碑上,永垂不朽。1989年的示威同样以科学和民主为口号,证明自己对民族的忠诚。但1989年的运动在外国称为天安门屠杀,在国内称为“天安门事件”。三十年前的这场运动在中国是禁忌话题,在互联网上被当局抹去痕迹,年轻一代中国人基本都不知道此事。
中国国家纪念5月4日的独特意义,而镇压对6月4日的记忆,这是永远的矛盾。1919年的学生被歌颂为拒绝沉默的爱国者,代表着知识分子勇担社会责任的古老传统。帝制时代的理想学者冒着巨大的风险向权力说出真相,只为暴露官员腐败,刺激改革。
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