The Harvard Double Standard
And how higher education can reform from within.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 12 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 236 posts
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
Should society tolerate intolerance to protect freedom of expression? A deep dive into Karl Popper’s ideas and modern free speech debates.
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
Fear and Self-Censorship in Higher Education
Unless we can conquer our anxiety and restructure the way we interact, dreams of social unification will remain dead on arrival.
Ash Kahn
· 11 min read
Corporate Rainbow Marketing: Too Much of a Good Thing
A recent dust-up involving NHL goalie James Reimer demonstrates the folly of pitting Pride PR against the conscience of individual actors.
Allan Stratton
· 7 min read
Words Don’t Matter
We have power over words, not vice versa.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 6 min read
Amy Wax and Academic Freedom
The investigation into the polarizing law professor violates the most basic tenets of academic freedom.
Steven Grant
· 14 min read
Ending Discrimination by Twitter
Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 9 min read
The Case Against Hate-Speech Laws: a Canadian Perspective
It is not science fiction to imagine that Section 319 and other as-yet-undrafted Canadian “anti-hate” laws will metastasize.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
The Disgraceful Firing of Joshua T. Katz
Joshua Katz knew it was dangerous to go public with his objections to a Princeton faculty letter, but he did so because his conscience demanded it. For this, he has paid an intolerable price.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 13 min read
Building a Better Twitter
Twitter’s current policy on content isn’t one dimensional: It serves up both false positives and false negatives—wrongly banning certain accounts for thoughtcrimes while permitting others to continue on the platform despite engaging in grotesquely abusive behavior.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 5 min read
Problems with Mill’s Masterpiece
The condition of human life is such that we must of necessity be restrained and compelled by circumstances in nearly every action of our lives. Why, then, is liberty, defined as Mr. Mill defines it, to be regarded as so precious? ~James Fitzjames Stephen Of all the works written in
Bo Winegard
· 18 min read