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 16 Jan 2018 · 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 2 Jan 2018 · 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 30 Dec 2017 · 12 min read
Deliberation Not Boundaries: A Reply to Wessie du Toit The greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself. In particular, it comes from the sheer volume and chaotic nature of that speech. Nestor de Buen 25 Nov 2017 · 7 min read
Stigmatizing Legitimate Dissent: A Response to J. Oliver Conroy Threatening speech when it actually did not do so delegitimizes speech that epitomizes exactly the type of speech that is supposed to be protected. Lee Jussim and Akeela Careem 24 Nov 2017 · 15 min read
Does Free Speech Need Boundaries to Survive? It wouldn’t be misleading to say that the greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself. Wessie du Toit 19 Oct 2017 · 6 min read
Sarah Haider on Normalizing Dissent: A Conversation The effects of that particular stance – it’s not so visible how harmful it can be. But you’re lying about the reality of hundreds of millions of people across the world. Spencer Case 16 Oct 2017 · 15 min read
The Pragmatic Case for Understanding Neurodiversity If you’re easily offended, it’s hard to understand the world. Shanu Athiparambath 25 Sep 2017 · 8 min read
A Policy of Censorship More Extreme Than Google There is no room for nuance, no room for subtlety. Feelings supersede facts. The emotions of the most fragile must be soothed at any cost, even if the truth is a casualty. Gideon Scopes 10 Sep 2017 · 8 min read
Fake News is Old News News and information thus become weaponized and aimed against the very institutions and values that free speech was supposed to protect. Jacob Mchangama 25 Aug 2017 · 11 min read
Mental Health ‘Disabilities’ as Legal Superpowers Mental disorders are highly stigmatized conditions, but they have a hidden upside. Geoffrey Miller 7 Aug 2017 · 24 min read
Richard Dawkins Celebrated by Activists and Ex-Muslims at London Conference for Free Expression It is only the theocratic movement of Islamism that seeks to silence critics with character assassination, blasphemy laws, threat of riot and the dirty murder of cartoonists. Alison Bevege 27 Jul 2017 · 4 min read
The Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Geoffrey Miller 18 Jul 2017 · 20 min read
Laci Green, The Matrix, and the Future of Free Speech “This is a pretty big concern of mine, I’ve felt this way for a long time, it affects my work, it affects the way I can interact with people, the things I can talk about, the people I can talk to.” Michael Aaron 13 May 2017 · 7 min read
