Current Event Day (Week of October 18): Jamal Khashoggi, Free Speech, and Turkish relations with Saudi Arabia, EU and US

We end this quarter with a unit on Free Speech & the Enlightenment and we end the spring quarter with our Mock EU Council, so the Jamal Khashoggi case seems quite relevant to our course.  Gerst classes will consider it as this week's current event issue, with Khashoggi's final article published this morning by the Washington Post.  Consider its argument on the importance of language in constructing a free press, something Martin Luther benefitted from with the printing press as well. 

What the World Needs Now: Free Expression

https://www.wsj.com/video/the-implications-behind-saudi-journalist-disappearance/46C5A0D2-88F9-4D1B-B8BE-2427554548B4.html  

https://www.wsj.com/video/what-we-know-about-the-missing-saudi-journalist-jamal-khashoggi/CFE671AC-8591-445D-B768-DF6706034DE7.html

http://www.wsj.com/video/how-saudi-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-went-from-missing-to-killed/D29C98D1-5209-41F6-B970-2A003883C49F.html

http://www.wsj.com/video/why-us-saudi-economic-ties-complicate-diplomacy/A7093B52-1E47-4BF3-9845-2757A1F385D0.html

https://www.wsj.com/video/two-countries-that-stand-to-benefit-from-the-khashoggi-tragedy/B6C82F79-4504-43C7-A833-C16DD10A07C6.html 

Saudis’ Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider 

https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/150546.pdf