There’s Nothing 'Intersectional' About Free Speech This sort of freedom leads to a freer and safer world. At Gab, we will never compromise on our commitment to protect freedom of speech for everyone. Andrew Torba 7 Feb 2019 · 4 min read
Facebook Has a Right to Block 'Hate Speech'—But Here’s Why It Shouldn’t The evolution of our content policy not only risked the core of Facebook’s mission, but jeopardized my own alignment with the company. Brian Amerige 7 Feb 2019 · 17 min read
Understanding Modern African Horrors by Way of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade The modernizing elites of these groups then fought with the British during WWI and WWII, and demanded independence after the war, which they got. Geoffrey Clarfield 6 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
The Case for a Second Brexit Referendum Revisited: A Response to Madeline Grant In the 2017 Act, Parliament simply gave permission to the Government to make the notification under Article 50, and negotiate a Withdrawal Agreement. Oliver Conolly 6 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
Liberal Orthodoxy and the New Heresy Complaint sometimes reflects an honest desire to be able to ask the unaskable, speak the unspeakable, and ponder the imponderable. Erik Gilbert 4 Feb 2019 · 9 min read
Why Do People Tell Me I’m Not Allowed to Write? The issue was that when a white playwright’s work was produced, casting directors were assuming that they should cast white actors. We were all aghast. Libby Emmons 1 Feb 2019 · 10 min read
The Death of a Dreamer When a public figure makes a mistake there seems to be a much stronger, more intense and quicker backlash. Will Storr 30 Jan 2019 · 16 min read
How Should We Read the Totalitarian Philosophers? This is particularly true of Marx and (especially) Heidegger, who gave concrete support to parties and proposals that resulted in the deaths of millions of people. Matt McManus 30 Jan 2019 · 10 min read
Attention, Star Trek Culture Warriors: Stand Down from Battle Stations It’s a shame so many viewers apparently were too busy fighting the culture war on planet Earth to watch the much cooler war being fought against Klingon forces in the inky vastness of space. Matt Gurney 29 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
Adventures in Adjunctopia Among academics, it is considered a badge of honor to be paid in copies, or not at all. After all, you can’t put a price tag on genius! Steve Salerno 29 Jan 2019 · 6 min read
Reading ‘Lolita’ in the West The star of Lolita is not Lolita herself, but Humbert Humbert, who hides his obsession with adolescent girls under a mask of tweedy old-world erudition. Zachary Snowdon Smith 26 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
The West's Betrayal of Iranian Dissidents Iranians who yearn for democracy and an open, prosperous society at peace with the world are met with overwhelming indifference from the West’s media and political leaders. Mariam Memarsadeghi 20 Jan 2019 · 10 min read
Glenn Greenwald's Bad History Had Henry A. Wallace become President of the United States, it would have been the equivalent of Stalin directly taking over the highest levels of the American government. Ronald Radosh 18 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
Why Quebec Isn't Interested in Anglo Lectures About Cultural Appropriation The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it. François Cardinal 17 Jan 2019 · 8 min read
What Is This Thing You Call 'Social Justice'? “Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says. Barrett Wilson 17 Jan 2019 · 10 min read