A collection of 105 posts
Two recent Australian Federal Court judgments illustrate the good things that the rule of law may confer on a society, even when it conflicts with ideals like freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s doctrine of self-reliance has been corrupted by social media, wellness culture, conspiracy theorists, and the “sovereign citizen” movement.
An absurd trial, a prurient media circus, and a failure of feminist ethics.
The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today.
The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.
A French criminal court ruling forbidding Marine Le Pen from contesting the 2027 presidential election could throw the country into turmoil.
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.
Victoria’s proposed hate speech legislation forces feminists to choose which is more important to them: the restriction of misogynistic speech, or the protection of their own political speech.
When a gap opens between what the law punishes and what society believes should be punished, people lose respect for the law and are more likely to violate it.
Ukraine has therefore pursued multiple legal avenues in response to the aggression.
There have been numerous incidents of vociferous trans activism in Tasmania, yet it was still possible to pass sensible legislation.
Exploring biases and criticisms in the perception of crime victims, from robbery to rape.
How two bungling American assassins travelled over 7,000 miles to settle a grudge, and then turned their trial into a nine-year circus.
Opponents of wokeness sometimes say that “facts don’t care about your feelings.” But the federal judiciary does.