My Book Defending Free Speech Has Been Pulled
If upsetting students or staff or the public is a reason for banning speech, all such discussion is at an end.
James Flynn
· 7 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 234 posts
How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists
Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 17 min read
In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot
This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.
Andy Lamey
· 19 min read
A Flawed Defense of Safe Spaces in the New York Times
Ironically, what is really needed is the restoration of the entire college campus as a safe space for people of all perspectives.
James Huffman
· 4 min read
No, Jonathan Haidt is Not Like a Slavery Apologist
The unhinged reasoning in Fairbanks’s essay invites an overcorrection. It would be easy—and tendentious—to reverse her argument. The Left are the real heirs of the proslavery tradition—intolerant aggression disguised as aggrieved fragility, etc.
Adam Rowe
· 6 min read
Yaniv’s Other Racket: How a Single Gender Troll Managed to Get 'Hundreds' of Women Thrown Off Twitter
The larger discussion of how trans rights and women’s rights will be reconciled in coming years lies beyond the scope of this article.
Lindsay Shepherd, Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Free Speech Matters, Even When it’s Not Protected by the First Amendment
As chilling effects go, “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk going to jail” is not all that different from “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk losing my friends and my livelihood.”
Jason Richwine
· 6 min read
Theoterrorism versus Freedom of Speech—A Review
Not only had Carrell hurt the feelings of the Iranian people, but he had hurt the feelings of Muslims all over the world. There would be consequences.
Rumy Hasan
· 8 min read
Why I Want to Start a Free Speech Trade Union
NATO provided an institutional framework that enabled the signatories of the treaty to respond collectively, thereby pooling the risk.
Toby Young
· 18 min read
Why I Set Up the Oregon Branch of the National Association of Scholars
In the case of the U.S., much law and policy in higher education is a state matter and for that reason chapters make even more sense.
Bruce Gilley
· 3 min read
How the Left Turned Words Into 'Violence,' and Violence Into 'Justice'
The idea that one’s disagreement with Ngo’s point of view disqualifies him from the physical protection granted to other ordinary citizens proved to be quite common in the aftermath of Ngo’s beating.
James Lindsay
· 11 min read
Age of Amnesia
The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
Why China is Hiding the Horrors of Its Past
While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read
Deplatforming Won't Work
An even more fundamental reason why social media companies shouldn’t try to suppress controversial ideas is that they are very bad at determining who and what is wrong or dangerous.
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
Stonewall's LGBT Guidance is Limiting the Free Speech of Gender Critical Academics
But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.
Kathleen Stock
· 12 min read