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
Free Speech
A collection of 343 posts
You're Fake News — The Unfortunate Reality of 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
Cultural Diversity and the 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
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 by 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 Induce 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 Offence Has Cost Many Innocent Lives
Femen founder Inna Shevchenko argues that the Western taboo on criticising religion — especially Islam — has directly enabled atrocities that frank discussion might have prevented.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read
How Activists Took Control of a University — The Case Study of Evergreen State
Understanding these mechanisms can hopefully produce a broader sense of how ideologically motivated people are able to acquire and wield so much power.
Uri Harris
· 8 min read
Best of the Web — 18 December 2017
In Memoriam: Remembering Christopher Hitchens Douglas Murray, The Spectator European Anti-Semitism: The Uncomfortable Truth About Swedish Anti-Semitism Paulina Neuding, New York Times U. S. Politics: Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle For Self-Preservation Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush, Peter Baker, New York Times #MeToo: Why the #MeToo Movement Should Be Ready For
Quillette
· 1 min read