Arguing in America

Lawyers like to joke that a ruling is probably correct if both sides are equally upset by it.

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Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill

Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are.

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Erdogan’s Hypocrisy

While routinely declaring that Israel’s behaviour toward Hamas is genocidal, Erdogan has consistently denied the real genocides carried out by Turkey.

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An Absurd Umbrella: Neurodiversity and the Autism Spectrum

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Arguing in America

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DEI Was Supposed to Help People Like Me. It Didn’t

The Lonely Death of an Ojibway Boy

Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill

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An Absurd Umbrella: Neurodiversity and the Autism Spectrum

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