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Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments

How to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.

Greg Lukianoff

12 Sep 2024 · 14 min read

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Eric Kaufmann speaks on a podcast. He is a mixed Asian-Jewish man in early to middle age. He wears a suit.

Totems and Taboos

A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.

John Lloyd

6 Aug 2024 · 9 min read

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Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’

For three years, Edinburgh’s rape-crisis centre was run by a male CEO who lectured sex-assault victims and staff about their ‘prejudice’ against the male body. How was this allowed to happen?

Joan Smith

4 Aug 2024 · 17 min read

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Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time

The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.

Frank Celia

17 Jun 2024 · 17 min read

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Born to Boss

Springsteen and the rock critics.

David Cohen

12 Sep 2024 · 14 min read

Detail from Der große deutsche Bauernkrieg (The Great German Peasants’ War), a 1955 painting by Max Lingner (1888–1959).

Where Virtue Meets Terror: A Brief History of Proto-Communism

In a new book on the history of communism, Sean McMeekin traces the movement’s roots to egalitarian creeds embraced throughout history by prophets, philosophers, utopians, and serfs.

Sean McMeekin

10 Sep 2024 · 18 min read

A collage featuring Sigmund Freud and an old painting of Oedipus and Antigone.

Freud’s Best Theory

While Freud mooted various bizarre theories that haven’t stood the test of time, the best of his thinking can help us better understand ourselves, others, and our world.