Free Speech - Quillette (Page 12)

The Counterproductive Suppression of Heterodox Views on Race

In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.

Robert Cherry

10 Sep 2018 · 11 min read

When Censorship Is Crowdsourced

The very writers, publishers, poets, musicians, comedians, media producers and artists who once worried about being muzzled by the government are now self-organizing on social media (Twitter, especially) to censor each other.

Jonathan Kay

9 Sep 2018 · 13 min read

Reflections on the Revolution at Yale

Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.

Jamie Kirchick

9 Sep 2018 · 7 min read

Headline Rhymes

Graham Verdon

5 Sep 2018 · 1 min read

Journalism in the Age of the Populist Right

Bannon’s deplatforming has reignited the debate about the responsibilities that mainstream event organisers and media broadcasters have when giving a platform to far-right views, and what limits we should place on public discourse.

Andrew Glover

5 Sep 2018 · 7 min read

A Facebook Engineer's Plea for Political Diversity

So far, Amerige has not been fired from Facebook as James Damore was fired from Google a year ago.

Gideon Scopes

4 Sep 2018 · 7 min read

Banning Bitcoin to Complete Big Tech Censorship

Bitcoin’s decentralized network means that regardless of how much corporate America hates some commentator, it can’t stop you from sending her cryptocurrency.

James D. Miller

21 Aug 2018 · 5 min read

Nobody Should Listen to Twitter Mobs

Vox characterized the practice of dredging up tweets and trying to get people fired over them an “alt right” tactic.

Daniel Friedman

13 Aug 2018 · 8 min read

Do Britain's Muslims Have a Right Not to be Offended?

But should all political comment on religion have to pass an offense test to be allowed?

Claire Fox

11 Aug 2018 · 8 min read

The Death of the Author and the End of Empathy

The Nation’s editors are now taking aim at language itself, reducing the complexity of human communication to a primitive understanding of words.

Heather Mac Donald

2 Aug 2018 · 7 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

The New York Times Comes Out Against Free Speech

The most influential newspaper in the world, the standard bearer of the Establishment, is announcing that free speech is, or should be, over.

Larry Sanger

4 Jul 2018 · 14 min read

Free Speech and the Capitulation of the SPLC

The SPLC, which had already removed the “Field Guide” from its website in April, issued a retraction and an apology—and agreed to pay Nawaz a $3.4 million settlement.

Cathy Young

28 Jun 2018 · 7 min read

The Historian's Hubris

Several Stanford University campus groups began protesting a free speech initiative that seemed designed to stir up controversy and privilege right-wing voices.

Genevieve Weynerowski

13 Jun 2018 · 8 min read

Giving the Devil His Due: Why Freedom of Inquiry in Science and Politics is Inviolable

Michael Shermer

10 Jun 2018 · 14 min read