Free Speech - Quillette (Page 5)

How a Single Anonymous Twitter Account Caused an ‘Indigenized’ Canadian University to Unravel

The main beneficiaries are more likely to be privileged administrators who burnish their bona fides by filling alumni magazines and email blasts with Indigenous photo-ops.

Jonathan Kay

6 Mar 2021 · 17 min read

A Cardinal Sin

My efforts and motives in instigating Cardinal Conversations, in response to undergraduates’ requests, and in defending the program against the assault upon it were simply ignored.

Niall Ferguson

5 Mar 2021 · 12 min read

‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts

When you are being targeted by aggression, hostility, and hatred, a natural impulse is to want to fight back as hard as possible, and exact revenge.

Dorian S. Abbot

5 Feb 2021 · 8 min read

Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence

It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible.

Pedro Domingos

27 Jan 2021 · 12 min read

Big Tech and Regulation—A Response to the Quillette Editors

The fallout has been intense and has gripped the professional commentariat.

Allen Farrington

20 Jan 2021 · 7 min read

Philosophers Smear One of Their Own for Gender Heresy

Why do philosophers so often uncritically support the conventional views of the time and place in which they find themselves?

Nathan Cofnas

14 Jan 2021 · 7 min read

To Expower the People

Expowering is a transitional measure since you cannot fire your way to equity.

Theodore Gioia

10 Jan 2021 · 12 min read

The Death of Political Cartooning—And Why It Matters

Many nominally democratic political regimes practice de facto censorship in regard to material criticizing their populist rulers.

Jack Reilly

7 Jan 2021 · 12 min read

An 'Anti-Racist' Mob Set Its Sights on Humble ‘Squampton.’ Here’s How the Town Fought Back

Though the population is largely white, Squamish has steadily become more diverse in recent years, and now boasts a thriving Sikh community.

Brian Vincent

20 Dec 2020 · 18 min read

On Activist Scholarship: An Interview with Helen Pluckrose

The universities are also where rigorous research, science, and valuable knowledge production continues to happen, and it is the universities we will need to push back at this and self-correct.

Jason D. Hill

16 Dec 2020 · 8 min read

Black and White in the Classroom

I also needed to say that they had it all wrong, that the white privilege they were arguing about was actually opportunity and nothing else.

Lola Jean Benjamin

7 Dec 2020 · 4 min read

Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid

Brian Stewart

4 Dec 2020 · 5 min read

Resisting the Mourner's Veto

Reasonable debate and discussion then becomes impossible as activists make unfalsifiable but furiously emotive claims about alleged threats to their safety and wellbeing amid much weeping and claims of exhaustion and mental fragility.

Christopher J. Ferguson

3 Dec 2020 · 8 min read

Why Do Progressives Support the Unfettered Use of Private Property?

Tech companies are not equipped to rule on messy and complex disputes over truth.

Samuel E. Miller

3 Dec 2020 · 7 min read

Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction

Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic.

Jonathan Kay

1 Dec 2020 · 24 min read