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
A collection of 232 posts
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
Denial and the Free Speech Crisis
In fact, freedom of speech has been repeatedly repressed at the University of Guelph, and this has been going on for at least a decade.
Rose Clark
· 11 min read
"I Now Understand How Nelson Mandela Felt"
So what are we to make of my ban? The only sensible conclusion is that Twitter is run by a coterie of crypto-fascists.
Titania McGrath
· 3 min read
Much Ado About Free Speech: A Canadian Professor Responds
I have been teaching at my university for almost 20 years, yet I cannot recall a single instance in which my students protested the expression of an offensive idea.
Dan Meegan
· 8 min read
Theorising Out Loud
If those who value free speech hope to convince the public of its enduring value, they would do well to more directly confront the poorly conceived theory behind progressive critiques, and the cynical abuse of public goodwill toward the vulnerable in society.
Charlotte Shelton
· 11 min read