Intellectual Freedom

I Got Thrown Off Etsy and PayPal for Expressing My Belief in Biological Reality

Apparently, selling mugs and shirts that glorify violence against ‘TERFs’ is just fine. But ‘I 💜 J.K. Rowling‘? That‘s hate speech.

Colin Wright

23 Jun 2022 · 9 min read

Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars—A Review

Most instructors on campus who revealed their political views also showed themselves to be a part of the Left

Clayton Trutor

16 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

PODCAST 118: Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about intellectual conformity, being a lockdown sceptic, and her new book

Literary superstar Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about the pandemic, the rush to embrace Covid orthodoxy by politicians and scientists, and the suppression of dissenting voices by big tech and the mainstream media, including hers.

Quillette / Toby Young

26 Oct 2020 · 1 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

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

Quillette Podcast 27 – Sir Roger Scruton on being sacked by the British Government for politically incorrect remarks about George Soros, China and M

Toby Young talks to Sir Roger Scruton, the conservative philosopher, about getting sacked as an advisor to the British Government after making some politically incorrect remarks, and the implications of his defenestration for intellectual freedom more widely.

Quillette

15 Apr 2019 · 1 min read

On Privilege and Being Human

Our intellectual ascendency defined us as a species and is inextricably linked to our success and our ability to connect with one another.

Emma C Williams

19 Nov 2015 · 4 min read