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Enforcing Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent: America’s Neglected Free Speech Crisis

Picture this. Students in schools paid for with tax dollars are ordered to stand as a sign of respect for the federal government. If they sit or kneel, they face…

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8 min

The Grain of Truth Behind Calls to Restrict Debate

Statements about the oppressive nature of academic debate or the need to balance free speech with a consideration of people’s feelings are often seen as outrageous enough to be instantly…

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9 min

Politics

The Internet Is Making You Less Free

Our current age is defined by the internet. The internet—a technology that allows the decentralized, globalized dissemination of information—has become so thoroughly entrenched in human life that access is now…

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9 min

The Student Snowflake Stereotype is Counterproductive to the Cause of Free Speech

Are students intolerant, overly sensitive snowflakes? Yes, according to broadcasters like Tucker Carlson in America and right-wing commentators James Delingpole, Brendan O’Neill, Toby Young and Julia Hartley-Brewer in the UK.…

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9 min

Politics

In Defense of Hate Speech

On 23 February, Oluwole Ilesanmi, a Christian street preacher, was approached by two uniformed police officers outside an underground station in north London. Donned with an earpiece microphone and a…

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5 min

Culture & Media

Is Battle Rap the Last True Bastion of Free Speech?

In a packed basement in the heart of Sheffield, northern England, two burly men—one wearing a hoodie, the other sporting a fitted New York Mets baseball cap at a jaunty…

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7 min

Politics

How Did Free Speech Get Here?

It was a good day for our public discourse when, on the popular public talk show Firing Line, conservative intellectual William F. Buckley had a conversation with avant-guard Beat poet…

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“Good Intentions Gone Awry”: Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind. Book Review.

There has, in recent years, been a significant change in the way in which many left-wing activists—especially student activists—express their complaints against their ideological opponents on the right. In their…

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6 min

Politics

Positive Liberty and Social Rights: Freedom of Speech on Campus

On university campuses, on the whole, people should be able to express their minds freely and openly, even if they hold contrarian opinions. Campuses are generally places of intellectual inquiry…

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21 min

Culture & Media

Areopagitica for Millennials

A few weeks ago, I went to the Chiltern village of Chalfont St Giles to visit a building that looks like something an illustrator would produce in a children’s encyclopedia…

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8 min

Politics

The Ideological Reflex and the Culture of Reason

Plato’s Socratic dialogues—in which Socrates questions and argues with a variety of interlocutors who claim to know the nature of such things as justice and virtue—are known for their exhortation…

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8 min

Psychology

Don’t Be an Indoor Cat: The Danger of Safety Culture

Too many of us are behaving like indoor cats these days. Let me explain.

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Free Speech

Enforcing Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent: America’s Neglected Free Speech Crisis

The Grain of Truth Behind Calls to Restrict Debate

The Internet Is Making You Less Free

The Student Snowflake Stereotype is Counterproductive to the Cause of Free Speech

In Defense of Hate Speech

Is Battle Rap the Last True Bastion of Free Speech?

How Did Free Speech Get Here?

“Good Intentions Gone Awry”: Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind. Book Review.

Positive Liberty and Social Rights: Freedom of Speech on Campus

Areopagitica for Millennials

The Ideological Reflex and the Culture of Reason

Don’t Be an Indoor Cat: The Danger of Safety Culture

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