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
· 6 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 236 posts
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
· 15 min read
The Pragmatic Case for Understanding Neurodiversity
If you’re easily offended, it’s hard to understand the world.
Shanu Athiparambath
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
Mental Health ‘Disabilities’ as Legal Superpowers
Mental disorders are highly stigmatized conditions, but they have a hidden upside.
Geoffrey Miller
· 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
· 4 min read
The Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech
Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture.
Geoffrey Miller
· 20 min read
In Defence of Anonymity
Ben Sixsmith
· 4 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
· 7 min read
Censorship-Free Social Media: the Next Big Thing, or Just Another Echo Chamber?
One of the forefathers of the modern internet, John Gilmore, famously remarked that the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Matthew Mott
· 6 min read
Who Will Stand Up To The PC Extremists?
The logic in their peculiar model is illogical, and involves punishing people not because they’ve done something wrong, but because they’ve hurt someone’s feelings.
Sam White
· 5 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A woman whose life story, by any rational, humane standards, should win encomia from, and the admiration of, decent people everywhere.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 18 min read
Thiel vs Gawker: Why a Defensive Media is the Real Threat to Free Speech
Gawker Media has tormented both powerful and not so powerful people for some time now.
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
Trade Protectionism in the Marketplace of Ideas
The marketplace of ideas is premised on the notion that when people exchange competing ideas, they assign value to those with the most intellectual merit and discard those without merit.
April Kelly-Woessner
· 7 min read