Imperfect Comedy in an Age of Perfection
Comedy, on the other hand, reminds us that we all have a dark side and that we might want to reconsider before casting stones.
Tanael Joachim
· 4 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 236 posts
The Moral Panic Behind Internet Regulation
This will make the internet a much less free place to speak compared to Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park—the place which is supposed to represent Britain’s commitment to free speech.
Matthew Lesh
· 14 min read
How to Prevent Campus Deplatformings: Lessons from Harvey Mansfield and Concordia University
Universities have no obligation to invite any particular public figure to speak on campus. But once they’ve promised someone a platform, the stakes are raised: Both speaker and audience are invested in the outcome.
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
How Our Little Humanist Club Got Taken Over by Social Justice Dogmatists
It seems wrong that the Executive Director of a humanist association should be able to use his organization’s governing mechanisms to shut down pushback against his publicly expressed ideological agenda.
Baz Edmeades
· 9 min read
Cambridge University’s Shameful Treatment of Jordan Peterson
To insinuate that Jordan Peterson is a contributor to sectarianism and division is the opposite of the truth.
Stephen Blackwood
· 9 min read
Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee
How can students advocate for speech codes and still believe that freedom of speech is secure?
Pamela Paresky
· 7 min read
Banning Evil: In the Shadow of Christchurch, Quasi-Religious Myths Can Lead Us Astray
It is my contention that we must protect speech no matter how hateful it may seem.
Michael Shermer
· 11 min read
What's the State of Free Speech on Campus? That’s the Question We Asked Canadian Academics
The threat is embedded in innocuous seeming administrative protocols, which serve to obscure and diffuse the means of authority
Brayden Whitlock and Kyle Whitlock
· 10 min read
Quillette Podcast 17 – Former Facebook engineer Brian Amerige on the company's ambivalence towards free speech
Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige, a former software engineer at Facebook, about the company’s content moderation policy and why it is making a mistake in trying to prohibit hate speech.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Poetic Injustice and Performative Outrage
Dehumanization can lead to the worst of human atrocities. It is also precisely the type of complaint Trump’s critics make of the president’s own behavior.
Clint Margrave
· 16 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 min read
Why Do People Tell Me I’m Not Allowed to Write?
The issue was that when a white playwright’s work was produced, casting directors were assuming that they should cast white actors. We were all aghast.
Libby Emmons
· 10 min read
Against the Militancy of the French 'Decolonial' Movement
We call on public authorities, heads of cultural, academic, scientific, and research institutions, but also the judiciary, to pull themselves together.
Quillette
· 6 min read
The New War on Comedy
Once you make it acceptable to tell the jester what is off limits in one context, you enable those who would seek to silence him elsewhere.
Konstantin Kisin
· 5 min read
The 2018 Free Thought Awards
Quillette’s success comes from a group of writers compelled to express the truth as they see it. We couldn’t be prouder of our association with so many inspiring, talented free thinkers. From the dozens, we give a special nod to these five for their stellar contribution in 2018.
Quillette
· 4 min read