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The Academic Quarrel over Determinism

Still, the universe is full of things that seem irrefutably evident and yet can’t be well explained or understood.

6 Jul 2019 · 8 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

Whither Léon Blum?—Paul Berman's Misplaced Faith in Bernie Sanders

Jeremy Corbyn’s record of praising terrorist organizations and celebrating artwork that looks like it was commissioned by Joseph Goebbels to the long list of condemnations of Labour issued by Jewish organizations in the UK.

Matt Johnson

3 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

Post-Liberal Politics—Left, Right, and Center

By uniting these groups, centrist post-liberals can put the Western world on a new political path, one that promises to restore hope, renew virtue, and recover a shared world.

M.T. Steiner

2 Jul 2019 · 10 min read

Antifa's Brutal Assault on Andy Ngo Is a Wake-Up Call—for Authorities and Journalists Alike

The Antifa thugs who attacked Quillette editor and photojournalist Andy Ngo in Portland yesterday did not quite manage to crack his skull.

Quillette

30 Jun 2019 · 5 min read

Eastern Europe’s Emigration Crisis

According to the UN, of all the countries that are expected to shrink the most in the coming decades, the top 10 are all in the eastern half of the continent, and seven of those are in the European Union.

Josh Adams

29 Jun 2019 · 6 min read

Say It Ain’t So, Doc: How Should Martin Luther King Scholars Deal With the Rape Story?

If the FBI tapes and transcripts are made public in 2027, we will need responsible historians to use them responsibly. They can’t be ignored, nor can the allegation that is now rocking the foundations of King’s moral legacy.

Stephen Smith

28 Jun 2019 · 6 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

Four Flavors of Doom: A Taxonomy of Contemporary Pessimism

Pessimism is not just factually wrong, it is also harmful because it undermines our confidence in our ability to bring about further progress.

Maarten Boudry

26 Jun 2019 · 10 min read

The Impressive Record of Theresa May

Skeptics say these are fiddled figures that don’t account for the “explosion” of zero hours contracts.

Tal Tyagi

26 Jun 2019 · 10 min read

Cornell students emerging from Willard Straight Hall after the takeover.

The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On

The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.

Tony Fels

25 Jun 2019 · 27 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

Headline Rhymes

Graham Verdon

24 Jun 2019 · 1 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

The Inner Nature of Freedom

The primarily political differences, therefore, emerge over how best to realize freedom, and of course, what freedom itself means.

Matt McManus

22 Jun 2019 · 11 min read