Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 230 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 24 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
· 7 min read
Secular Modernity under Theocratic Assault
Brian Stewart
· 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
· 9 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
· 9 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
· 11 min read
The Importance of Blasphemy
Brian Stewart
· 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
· 12 min read
For Some Adjunct Professors, It's Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job
Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 10 min read