A collection of 229 posts
This is not the first time Germany has resorted to censorship in the mistaken belief that the state can contain dangerous ideas. The last time they tried this, it facilitated the rise of the Nazis.
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?
Josh Bornstein appears to view the world as a good Left/bad Right binary. This assumption limits both his diagnosis of the problem and the creativity of his solutions.
“Believe those who seek the truth,” André Gide once wrote, “doubt those who find it.” The same can be said of falsehoods.
Victoria’s proposed hate speech legislation forces feminists to choose which is more important to them: the restriction of misogynistic speech, or the protection of their own political speech.
A tenured scholar has paid a high price for bluntly expressing uncomfortable truths.
A proposed Australian law aimed at blocking false content would likely be applied selectively—and thereby further erode public trust in mainstream information sources.
How to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.
Jonathan Kay speaks to fellow podcast host Kushal Mehra about the ‘eerie similarities’ between censorship campaigns in India and 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.
We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.
The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.
The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.
Censorship obscures our view of reality and impedes our society’s ability to function.