Free Speech - Quillette (Page 5)

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 · 7 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 · 6 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 · 23 min read

I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist

What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.

Theodore Pennington

29 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

Secular Modernity under Theocratic Assault

Brian Stewart

11 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

How The Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission—And Lost Its Best Journalist

In the case of the media, we’ve had a running social experiment underway since 2015 that helps us answer this question.

Zaid Jilani

30 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

Bruce Gilley vs Cancel Culture

In 2019, Gilley found himself rebuffed by his own university when he proposed a course on “Conservative Political Thought.”

Noah Carl

30 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

How Availability Cascades are Shaping our Politics

Two components make up an availability cascade: an informational cascade and a reputational cascade.

Vincent Harinam and David Kopel

26 Oct 2020 · 11 min read

The Importance of Blasphemy

Brian Stewart

21 Oct 2020 · 5 min read

The Moral Panic over 'Sexualisation'

I regularly found myself on national TV and radio, opposing the idea that the state should act to stop teenagers accessing sexual material.

Jerry Barnett

16 Oct 2020 · 11 min read

For Some Adjunct Professors, It's Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job

Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor

8 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

The Dishonest and Misogynistic Hate Campaign Against J.K. Rowling

And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.

Louise Perry

18 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

How to Fight the Enemies of Academic Freedom

Even though large tracts of our cultural landscape and many old and famous American institutions have fallen or may fall into the grip of this hostile ideology and all the odious apparatus of cancel culture rule, we shall not flag or fail.

Sergiu Klainerman

10 Aug 2020 · 6 min read

At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate

The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.

Julian Vigo

5 Aug 2020 · 10 min read