Corey Gibson

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. —Oxford Union Debate, December 3, 1964 [1] This motion was adapted from Barry Goldwater’s speech at the Republican National Convention on July 16, 1964, in which he accepted the party’s presidential nomination. One month after Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide victory over the firebrand conservative, the motion was debated in an altogether different though no less performative context. Amongst those...