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Podcast #243: The Freedom to Blaspheme

Jonathan Kay speaks to fellow podcast host Kushal Mehra about the ‘eerie similarities’ between censorship campaigns in India and Canada.

Quillette

17 Jul 2024 · 18 min read

Podcast #239: Justin Trudeau’s Ominous Online Harms Act: ‘Minority Report’ Comes to Canada

Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine staff writer Conor Friedersdorf about a censorious government bill that would allow officials to investigate Canadians for things they haven’t done yet.

Quillette

19 Jun 2024 · 14 min read

Black and white portraits of Maarten Boudry and Jerry A. Coyne. Background is two different types of stones.

Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming

We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.

Jerry A. Coyne / Maarten Boudry

4 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

A young mum carrying a baby. Dark image with shadows, giving an intimate, almost sad tone.

Fear and the Overton Window

The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

31 May 2024 · 8 min read

A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam demonstration

Waltzing Down the Road to Hell

The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.

Adam Garfinkle

27 May 2024 · 15 min read

A colourful mosaic of Lenin and the hammer and sickle.

What My Soviet Life Taught Me About Censorship

Censorship obscures our view of reality and impedes our society’s ability to function.

Izabella Tabarovsky

17 May 2024 · 13 min read

Defending Academic Freedom in Higher Education and Medicine

The success of the academy requires academic freedom and tolerance for viewpoint diversity. These critical values are under increasing threat.

Jeffrey S. Flier

25 Apr 2024 · 12 min read

Hooded hacker person using smartphone in infodemic concept with digital glitch effect

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.

Toadworrier

23 Apr 2024 · 12 min read

Wilber Aguilar Bravo displaying the symbol for Libertad (Freedom)

Cuba’s Imprisoned Truth

An interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera.

Justo Antonio Triana

11 Apr 2024 · 11 min read

Podcast #233: Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a ‘community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations’