Speech, Action, And The Trouble With The First Amendment

Stanley Fish: “The basic opposition, the one without which the First Amendment could not get off the ground, is the opposition between speech and action. … It comes with, and indeed marks out, the territory, and the main task of professionals in the field is to determine just where the line between speech and action should be drawn. … [And] there is no principled way to draw that line.”

Cuban Ballet: A Paradise Of Sorts, Trapped In Limbo

The school of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba “is now world-famous, gathering its students from the island’s rural poor and urban delinquent,” and its training “is also world-class.” But while ballet is “a national entertainment” in Cuba, the country’s “political, economic and cultural limbo” means its astounding dancers have very few choices.