Free Speech - Quillette (Page 9)

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

1 Aug 2019 · 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

1 Aug 2019 · 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

20 Jul 2019 · 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

15 Jul 2019 · 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

10 Jul 2019 · 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

8 Jul 2019 · 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

6 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

The Uncertain Boundaries of Corporate Morality

Corporations are increasingly prone to formulating explicit moral positions on issues of social importance and punishing those who fail to condone such positions to the extent that they are able to do so.

Cameron Hendy

5 Jul 2019 · 5 min read

How Antifa's Apologists Fell in Love With Street Violence

Antifa movements have sprung up in a variety of countries, often opposing Nazis and Nazi sympathizers while also promoting general far-left politics of the Marxist and communist variety.

Robby Soave

3 Jul 2019 · 7 min read

Publicly Shaming a Musician for Calling a Composition by Its Name

The silencing of a voice does not lead to discourse, in art or in politics.

Kurt Gottschalk

27 Jun 2019 · 7 min read

What Defenders and Critics Get Wrong about the 'Marketplace of Ideas'

The motif of the marketplace of ideas, Stanley argues, only works with descriptive speech.

Mohamed Ali

24 Jun 2019 · 6 min read

How Free Speech Dies Online

Political speech is the most important category of speech and it is the first category of speech authoritarians will seek to constrain as they consolidate power.

Daniel Friedman

23 Jun 2019 · 14 min read

Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College

The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.