"Je suis Charlie" and the centrality of Freedom

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« Je me rends compte que la liberté est un combat » (Le Monde, 7 January 2015) Je suis Charlie, "I am Charlie" or "I follow Charlie" or both: this simple phrase has made me think again and again. Liberty, liberty of expression, of association, of belief, of disbelief, of blasphemy and of the press, is a fundamental unalienable right in France. In fact I wanted to begin the year by another post, but I changed my mind after the tragic events in Paris yesterday: where freedom of the press and o...