Reflections on the Revolution at Yale
Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.
Jamie Kirchick
· 7 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 346 posts
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
I 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