Does Free Speech Need Boundaries to Survive?
It wouldn’t be misleading to say that the greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself.
Wessie du Toit
· 6 min read
China: Zero Tolerance for Academic Freedom
China quickly found itself facing dissatisfaction from those steamrollered by a policy of growth at all costs, in spite of the country’s economic and diplomatic successes.
Emilie Tran
· 5 min read
Sarah Haider on Normalizing Dissent: A Conversation
The effects of that particular stance – it’s not so visible how harmful it can be. But you’re lying about the reality of hundreds of millions of people across the world.
Spencer Case
· 15 min read
The Problem with the Neurodiversity Movement
This requires people to set aside their prejudices and preconceived ideas and engage into a dialogue with those with whom they may disagree or even hate.
Thomas Clements
· 7 min read
Sex and the Seductions of Social Explanation
At its best, commentary on the science of sex differences has been about method and about evidence, and the knowledge that, with care, these can produce.
Michael Clegg
· 10 min read
Austria's Snap Election and the End of the Grand Coalition
The election on October 15 could see the FPÖ enter government for the first time in nearly 20 years. How did we get here?
Lindsay Mackenzie
· 9 min read
From Ancient Times to the Present: Transferring Guilt Makes a Mockery of Justice
Transferring guilt across generations from ancient ancestors to their heirs was highly convenient for religious authorities.
T.M. Murray
· 12 min read
Haruki Murakami, Poet of Loneliness
It is in such trancelike states that Murakami’s characters are drawn into the lands of the surreal and the absurd.
Ben Sixsmith
· 5 min read
Academic Article Withdrawn Following “Serious and Credible” Threats of Violence
Andy Ngo
· 5 min read
Sweden's Sexual Assault Crisis Presents a Feminist Paradox
Such levels of gang violence are without parallel in Sweden’s modern history. And with police busy dealing with gang murders and shootings, rape victims wait for justice.
Paulina Neuding
· 8 min read
The Spirit of Centrism
All too often legitimate conversations about policy preference devolve into accusations of moral transgression.
Bo Winegard
· 10 min read
The Case for Contrarianism
Without such a process occurring, outsiders will be unable to look at the market and garner any reliable knowledge about the state of the world.
Oliver Traldi
· 8 min read
Universal Basic Income And The Threat of Tyranny
In the suggested world of universal basic income, what puts pressure on the government to maintain democracy and political rights?
Shai Shapira
· 7 min read
E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One
The centripetal tendency, if unchecked, ends in a black hole, in narrow paranoia, in the life-denying singularity of fundamentalism or fascism.
David Lucas
· 10 min read
Nationalism, Liberalism and the European Paradox
There would be calls for interventions, the topic would be urgently raised at the Security Council —and there might even be talks of sanctions or the arming of moderate rebels.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read