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 10 Mar 2017 · 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 27 Sep 2016 · 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 17 Jun 2016 · 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 1 Jun 2016 · 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 19 May 2016 · 7 min read
Free Speech and Islam — The Left Betrays the Most Vulnerable The misguided progressives who denounce “Islamophobia” and turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of, say, women, gays, and adherents of other religions in Muslim communities or in Islamic countries constitute what Maajid Nawaz has dubbed the “regressive left.” Jeffrey Tayler 5 May 2016 · 10 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Sam Harris If you discount Islamic doctrine as the motivation for domestic violence and intolerance of sexual minorities in the Muslim world, you’re left with at least one implicitly bigoted assumption. Jeffrey Tayler 21 Apr 2016 · 12 min read
How Marcuse Made Today’s Students Less Tolerant Than Their Parents For six decades, social scientists have almost universally treated intolerance as a negative social disease. April Kelly-Woessner 1 Mar 2016 · 5 min read
Tutors and Examiners of the Mind: German Media and the Migrant Crisis In the wake of the Cologne crisis (as we can now rightly call it — again, without exaggeration) many worrying trends in German society came to light. Phillip Mark McGough 15 Feb 2016 · 6 min read
The Thought Police Aren’t Administrators—They’re Us College Kids Students at residential colleges live in an oppressively tight bubble of conformity. Toni Airaksinen 23 Jan 2016 · 4 min read
Herd Mentality Herd mentality – in all its forms, both ancient and modern – is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world. Emma C Williams 3 Jan 2016 · 5 min read
Glenn Greenwald: Fascism's Fellow Traveller Greenwald is never less than proud to acknowledge the considerable time he has spent as a litigator and writer defending the right of neo-Nazis to air their views. Jamie Palmer 19 Dec 2015 · 12 min read
The Shame and the Disgrace of the Pro-Islamist Left The dismal spectacle of radical queer activists, feminists, and sundry other progressives professing solidarity with Islamists is at once fascinating and enraging. Jamie Palmer 6 Dec 2015 · 7 min read
Je Suis George Lawlor University life is beginning to sound like a dystopian world; hollow-eyed students hunting in packs, scouring the landscape for dissenting individuals unplugged from the matrix. Emma C Williams 29 Nov 2015 · 6 min read
What Drives Academics Who Oppose Free Speech? The tyranny of confirmation bias and the fanaticism of its enforcers are not only a disaster for academics themselves. Jamie Palmer 10 Nov 2015 · 7 min read
