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
Free Speech
A collection of 238 posts
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
The Cultural Diversity Case for Free Speech
Speech codes often claim to protect ‘cultural diversity’ on campuses, but they often do the reverse.
Geoffrey Miller
· 15 min read
Our Tribes and Tribulations
Gathering by the campfire in our ideological tribes, we bask in the warm glow of unchallenged beliefs.
Jaspreet Gill
· 5 min read
In Defense of Offense
The uncomfortable physiological feeling of hearing offensive speech, it would then seem, vindicates this view that one is being attacked.
Michael Robillard
· 15 min read
Buy Banned Books
In our hyper-mediated, panoptical culture, where neurotic self-reference is now almost completely inescapable, the continuing contribution of imaginative fiction and investigative journalism has never been more necessary.
Bonny Brooks
· 9 min read
Why Free Speech Matters
What’s at stake if both the legal protection and cultural environment sustaining free speech continues to deteriorate?
Jacob Mchangama
· 7 min read
The Internet Is Not a Children’s TV Channel
The internet is not a TV station, a babysitter, a shopping mall, a kindergarten, or a support group.
Matthew Mott
· 6 min read
Margaret Atwood: Tried on Social Media, Convicted by the Press
Social networks are effective at increasing participation – by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.
Sharon Coen
· 5 min read
“Hate Speech” Does Not Incite Hatred
The claim that “hate speech” causes hatred, and thereby causes violence, is superficially appealing, but the more one thinks about it, the less sense it makes.
Gordon Danning
· 6 min read
Catherine Deneuve, #MeToo, and the Fracturing Within Feminism
The disproportionate backlash that Deneuve and her co-signers have incited is indeed a sign of the fracturing within feminism.
Ulysse Pasquier
· 7 min read
Free Speech Leftists Still Exist
The perception, understandably, follows that the right is in favor of free expression, and the left has become wholly illiberal.
Alexander Blum
· 7 min read
Femen’s Inna Shevchenko: Fear of Causing Offense Has Cost Too Many Innocent Lives
Her life story presents a challenge to religious communities. Do they want to reform [Islam] or give it up?”
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read