Sightings Articles

freedom of expression | Milo Yiannopoulos | Rachel Fulton Brown

Mind-Forged Manacles

Professor Rachel Fulton Brown’s February 16th Sightings piece was about freedom of speech, the place of Christianity in Western culture supposedly championed by Milo Yiannopoulos, and the seeming inability of students to make normative judgments. Whi...

March 2, 2017

freedom of expression | Milo Yiannopoulos | Rachel Fulton Brown

An Open Letter to Rachel Fulton Brown

Dr. Fulton Brown, You were a major influence on my development as an academic and as an educator. I am studying for a doctorate and writing on the history of biblical exegesis in large part because of time spent in your classroom in my seven years...

March 2, 2017

freedom of expression | Milo Yiannopoulos | Rachel Fulton Brown

Lessons in False Piety and Fake News from the Middle Ages

In the first novella of Boccaccio’s 14th-century Decameron, Panfilo tells the story of Ciappelletto, the worst man ever to live (including his impressive catalogue of vice), who spins his final confession into a rhetorical masterpiece narrating his o...

March 2, 2017

freedom of expression | Milo Yiannopoulos | Rachel Fulton Brown

Three Comments on Rachel Fulton Brown

Of the many misleading statements made by Rachel Fulton Brown, one that struck me as a Berkeley local and indeed a veteran of the Free Speech Movement of 1964 was her representation of the anti-Milo student protesters. They were, she implies, happily...

March 2, 2017

freedom of expression | Milo Yiannopoulos | Rachel Fulton Brown

The Time Has Passed

On February 16th, 2017, Sightings published an article entitled “Why Milo Scares Students, and Faculty Even More,” by University of Chicago professor Rachel Fulton Brown. In the piece Fulton Brown theorizes about the discomfort that Milo Yiannopoulos...

March 2, 2017