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The Antifa thugs who attacked Quillette editor and photojournalist Andy Ngo in Portland yesterday did not quite manage to crack his skull.
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.
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.
The silencing of a voice does not lead to discourse, in art or in politics.
Pessimism is not just factually wrong, it is also harmful because it undermines our confidence in our ability to bring about further progress.
Skeptics say these are fiddled figures that don’t account for the “explosion” of zero hours contracts.
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.
The motif of the marketplace of ideas, Stanley argues, only works with descriptive speech.
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.
The primarily political differences, therefore, emerge over how best to realize freedom, and of course, what freedom itself means.
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.
As global violence against women gained horrendous momentum, many Western feminists became increasingly afraid to criticize that violence lest they be condemned as colonialists and racists.
Dr Phyllis Chesler has never been afraid to be unpopular.
What has not been discussed nearly as much is the end game of the oligarchs.