A collection of 234 posts
Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine staff writer Conor Friedersdorf about a censorious government bill that would allow officials to investigate Canadians for things they haven’t done yet.
We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.
The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.
The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.
Censorship obscures our view of reality and impedes our society’s ability to function.
The success of the academy requires academic freedom and tolerance for viewpoint diversity. These critical values are under increasing threat.
Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are.
An interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a ‘community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations’
A conversation with the director of Australia's new Free Speech Union.
Aggressive content moderation is presented as a necessary response to hate speech and misinformation—but it's more like a moral panic.
The Indian government’s tendency to crack down on speech of which it disapproves dates from the founding of the republic.
The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.
And how higher education can reform from within.
A conversation with author and free-speech advocate David Bernstein.