A collection of 244 posts
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.
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.
Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.
Should society tolerate intolerance to protect freedom of expression? A deep dive into Karl Popper’s ideas and modern free speech debates.
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.
Unless we can conquer our anxiety and restructure the way we interact, dreams of social unification will remain dead on arrival.