What My Soviet Life Taught Me About Censorship
Censorship obscures our view of reality and impedes our society’s ability to function.
Izabella Tabarovsky
· 13 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 230 posts
Defending Academic Freedom in Higher Education and Medicine
The success of the academy requires academic freedom and tolerance for viewpoint diversity. These critical values are under increasing threat.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 12 min read
Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill
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.
Toadworrier
· 12 min read
Cuba’s Imprisoned Truth
An interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera.
Justo Antonio Triana
· 11 min read
Podcast #233: Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a ‘community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations’
Quillette, Meghan Daum
· 29 min read
Australia's New Free Speech Union: Quillette Cetera Episode 29
A conversation with the director of Australia's new Free Speech Union.
Zoe Booth, Dara Macdonald
· 1 min read
The Case Against Content Moderation
Aggressive content moderation is presented as a necessary response to hate speech and misinformation—but it's more like a moral panic.
Sam Kahn
· 15 min read
India’s Illiberal First Amendment
The Indian government’s tendency to crack down on speech of which it disapproves dates from the founding of the republic.
Anwesh Satpathy
· 11 min read
Lights Out in America
The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
The Harvard Double Standard
And how higher education can reform from within.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 12 min read
Understanding Woke Antisemitism: Quillette Cetera Episode 25
A conversation with author and free-speech advocate David Bernstein.
Zoe Booth
· 1 min read
The Heckler’s Veto and the Right to Free Association
It's not just a matter of weighing up one group’s free speech against another group’s counter-speech. It’s also about one group’s freedom of association being impeded.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 8 min read
The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell
Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.
James Huffman
· 9 min read
Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox
The true power of free expression is revealed even in defenses of speech advocating against it.
Angel Eduardo
· 6 min read
The Great Misinformation Panic
By going to war against "misinformation" governments are merely diverting finite resources from addressing real harm to people and property, which purportedly justifies the panic in the first place.
Dara Macdonald
· 8 min read