All Editorials Snapshot & Free Vocabulary PDF – 12 Dec 2025
The Hindu Editorials snapshot
Editorial 1
Notional Security: On the U.S.’s National Security Strategy
The US released its first National Security Strategy under Trump’s second term, outlining a roadmap to keep America as the world’s strongest, richest power, with five priorities: ending mass migration era, protecting core rights like speech and religion, rejecting endless global support like Atlas holding the world, doubling down on brokering peace deals for influence, and prioritising economic security via balanced trade, critical supply chains, reindustrialisation, defence boosts, energy dominance, and Wall Street-led digital finance innovation.
Grandiose rhetoric echoes American exceptionalism, but sharp attacks on European allies—warning of civilizational erasure from economic decline, unstable governments in Germany/EU failing peace pledges amid Ukraine war—drew backlash like German FM Johann Wadephul rejecting US lectures on free societies.
Pushing burden-sharing risks weakening NATO, emboldening autocrats flouting norms by letting allies fend regionally while US pursues dominance-isolationism mix.
Editorial 2
Playing to the Gallery: On the Karnataka Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, 2025
Karnataka’s new Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Bill aims to punish speech or acts inciting hatred, disharmony, or violence against people based on religion, race, caste, gender, or orientation, responding to rising online prejudice fueled by misinformation that cycles into real harm and gives hatemongers political rewards. Yet such laws worldwide backfire by curbing free speech, handing state agents vague power to define indefinable terms like “harmony” or “ill will,” creating slippery slopes where pro-Palestinian protests get labeled anti-Semitic and the powerful misuse sweeping rules against critics. Existing laws suffice for imminent violence threats; this Bill’s pious goals risk totalitarian overreach, blatant abuses, and less liberty, with government chasing public applause at freedom’s expense.
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Editorial 3
Human or Fish, No One is Safe from Fake News
Misinformation plagues the digital age for humans and even animals like fish, flies, and bacteria, as a Cornell University study in Interface shows: fish schools flee perceived threats that aren’t real, with one panicked fish triggering the group in social networks where fake alarms spread inevitably.
Historical hoaxes built resilience—like 1835’s “Great Moon Hoax” in The Sun claiming lunar unicorns, man-bats, and beavers, sparking penny papers and new readers, or Alan Sokal’s 1996 sham article accepted by Social Text exposing academic rigour decline. Wisdom demands discernment over herd mentality; for all species, follow science, not the crowd.
Editorial 4
Karnataka Bill on Hate Speech Can Be Used to Curb Citizens’ Freedoms. It Must Be Scrapped
Laws claiming to protect high ideals like national security or religious sentiments often misuse power to silence dissent, as seen with sedition, UAPA, and state laws criminalising hurt feelings, much like Karnataka’s new Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Bill tabled Wednesday, which broadly defines hate speech as any public expression—spoken, written, visual—intended to cause injury, disharmony, enmity, hatred, or ill-will against individuals, groups, or communities for prejudicial gain, punishable by up to 10 years jail, despite exceptions for art, academia, or reporting that courts alone decide amid a harsh justice system. Existing BNS provisions already cover incitement, religious hurt, and prejudicial acts against marginalised groups, making this redundant overreach that disempowers citizens against government in a democracy rife with prejudice, polarisation, and politician-fueled divisions.
Rather than simplistic band-aids ignoring deeper social wounds, the Bill risks weaponising against its intended protected groups, demanding scrapping for true freedom.
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