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
Free Speech
A collection of 238 posts
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
The Woke Left v. the Alt-Right: A New Study Shows They’re More Alike Than Either Side Realizes
Optimists, however, will prefer to focus on another takeaway from the study, which is that no significant statistical relationship could be found between Dark Triad traits and PCL (i.e. Political Correctness-Liberalism) attitudes.
Zaid Jilani
· 5 min read
The Futility of the Conservative War on Pornography
Concerns about pornography expressed by Christian and other religious and social conservatives are no doubt sincere.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 7 min read
Our Oppressive Moment
The Harper’s letter is a declaration intended to resist the poisonous atmosphere suffocating those who don’t enjoy our platforms and profiles.
John McWhorter
· 7 min read
Remembering Cancel Culture’s 40-Year-Old Stepfather
"Cruising" faced protests and boycotts from gay activists and the LGBTQ+ community, but later became a cult hit.
Adrian Nguyen
· 7 min read
Princeton University is One of the Least Racist Institutions in the World
In his declaration of independence published in Quillette, Katz, a chaired professor in the Classics department, defends the importance of free speech in academia and accuses the authors of the letter of trying to impose unreasonable changes at Princeton.
Sergiu Klainerman
· 6 min read
In Canada's Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno's’
Rommelmann also was eager to move to a city with a vibrant national media presence.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
In Defense of ‘Reactionary Liberalism’—A Reply to Osita Nwanevu
Nwanevu is predictably coy about affirmative action, the most explicit form of institutional racism in the United States.
Bo Winegard
· 10 min read