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
Free Speech
A collection of 347 posts
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
Quillette
· 1 min read
When Words Lose Their Meaning — Wilfrid Laurier University
Though different literary forms, the key message of both works was the same: beware any person or group that redefines words.
David Millard Haskell
· 12 min read
Worry About Piety Contests, Not Virtue Signalling
The more important problem is that, in addition to getting signaling wrong, the expression also gets virtue wrong.
Cameron Harwick
· 7 min read
Problematic, Poor Taste
What effect does the conceptualization of the document have upon editorial practice?
Quillette
· 9 min read
Best of the Web — 9 December 2017
Education: Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them Jack Goldsmith and Adrian Vermeule, Washington Post Free Speech, Personified Peter Salovey, New York Times Race and Racism: The world is relying on a flawed psychological test to fight racism Olivia Goldhill, Quartz Maybe We Should Just Shut
Quillette
· 1 min read
White Women's Tears — Wilfrid Laurier and Critical Theory
Critical Theory was on the oppressive nature of mass consumerism which is closely linked to capitalism but it gradually expanded to cover almost every area of human relations.
Uri Harris
· 12 min read
The Impasse of Modernism and Postmodernism
The battlefield is indeed the university. How, then, does he characterize these two opponents?
Patrick Lee Miller
· 22 min read
The Demise of Public Language
You are sick to death with the unrelenting abuse of language in public life.
Brian Russell Graham
· 6 min read
Cakeshop Conflicts — Let Them Eat Rights
What we are witnessing is not really a conflict of rights, but a conflict of conceptions of the good.
Brian K. Miller
· 9 min read
Resisting the Postmodern Ascendancy — An Interview with Ernest Suarez
The ALSCW started because of the ascendancy of postmodernist theory, but not because of the politics associated with postmodern theory.
Brian Russell Graham
· 11 min read
A Brief History of Tolerance
The celebration of tolerance as an end in itself is a symptom of the shift from self-confident modern liberal democracies to the self-doubting postmodern ones.
Alexis Carre
· 12 min read
Best of the Web — 26 November 2017
Education – Lindsay Shepherd and Wilfrid Laurier University, Heal Thyself Editorial, Globe and Mail Lindsay Shepherd and the Potential for Heterodoxy at Wilfrid Laurier University Raffi Grinberg, Heterodox Academy The Radical Left’s Apologia for Evil The Charles Manson Fallacy Paul Berman, Tablet The West’s Leftist Male ‘Intellectuals’ Who Traffic
Quillette
· 1 min read