Woolf and Whistleblowing: From World War I to WikiLeaks 1

[...]this was Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a professor of history at Harvard.) Similarly, Virginia Woolf has not escaped the distortions of the meme. [...]she juxtaposes her vivid description of these scenes with other photographs representing the pillars of patriarchy, identified by Alice Staveley as former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, then Chancellor of Cambridge, in his academic gown and medieval mortarboard; Lord Hewart, the sitting Lord Chancellor and bewigged embodiment of the law; Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury, with mitre and crook; and Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, wearing enough military medals to decorate a Christmas tree. [...]a key feature of the Society's composition is its spectrality: "It would have no office, no committee, no secretary; it would call no meetings; it would hold no conferences" (126). Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change, if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility. [...]all men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if the nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.