Free Speech Crisis

Britain's Academic Free Speech Bill

Interference by external actors comprises any attempt by those outside the academy to encroach upon the free speech rights of university members.

Noah Carl

15 Mar 2021 · 13 min read

Quillette Podcast 24 – Rob Montz talks about his YouTube videos documenting the free speech crisis

Jonathan Kay talks to Rob Montz, the Washington, D.C.-based documentarian who has made a series of slick, entertaining videos about the free speech crisis engulfing America’s universities. You can see some of Rob’s videos, with some additional commentary from Jon, here.

Quillette

29 Mar 2019 · 1 min read

Are Anti-BDS Laws an Assault on Free Speech?

Pluralism has been curiously absent from the BDS debate, which is currently gridlocked over the more narrow question of state neutrality.

Aaron Sibarium

8 Feb 2019 · 8 min read

Quillette Podcast 9 - Professor Jeff McMahan talks about co-founding the Journal of Controversial Ideas

Associate editor Toby Young talks to Jeff McMahan, professor of moral philosophy at Oxford and co-founder of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a new academic periodical in which contributors will be given the option of publishing their papers pseudonymously. Professor McMahan talks about why he believes the journal is needed,

Quillette

4 Jan 2019 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast 5 - Heather Mac Donald on the Free Speech Crisis in the Academy

Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Heather Mac Donald, a Fellow of the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of several books, most recently The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. Among other topics, they discuss her

Quillette

7 Dec 2018 · 1 min read

Free Speech Doesn't Protect Nazis. It Protects Us From Nazis

Free speech advocates don’t defend the speech rights of Nazis because they believe that Nazis have anything valuable to contribute to a marketplace of ideas.

Daniel Friedman

11 Jul 2018 · 7 min read