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
· 8 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 234 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 8 min read
Giving the Devil His Due: Why Freedom of Inquiry in Science and Politics is Inviolable
Michael Shermer
· 14 min read
The Commodification of Learning and the Decline of the Humanities
We also have our separate ‘facts,’ often the result of what different media outlets consider newsworthy.”
Julian Vigo
· 10 min read
Why We Marched to Defend Free Speech in the UK
Scottish people should have been a more visible presence, since the outcome of the case could curtail their freedom of speech.
Helen Dale and Shazia Hobbs
· 9 min read
The Scientific Importance of Free Speech
These are merely tools that help us to accomplish a far greater mission, which is to choose between rival narratives, in the vicious, no-holds-barred battle of ideas that we call “science”.
Adam Perkins
· 7 min read
Online Hate Speech and the Nazi Pug
“Hate speech” has become the reliable battle-cry of the modern-day censor, but it is a largely meaningless concept.
Matthew Mott
· 6 min read
The Feminist Case for Free Speech
Could it be time to reassess global standards of free speech to mute misogynist trolls and amplify the voices of women?
Jacob Mchangama
· 8 min read
The Meaning of Freedom
Inside the hall, Peterson’s remarks were briefly interrupted by two protesters who mounted the stage and unfurled a banner that read “Freedom To Smash Bigotry.”
Aaron Pope
· 5 min read
"You're Fake News" The Unfortunate Reality of the Ad Hominem
An ad hominem attack is one directed at an opponent’s character rather than the substance of his arguments and claims.
Elio Martino
· 6 min read