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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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6 min

Netflix Has Their “Han Shot First” Moment with 13 Reasons Why

Netflix recently announced they have bowed to pressure from complainants arguing that their show 13 Reasons Why’s graphic portrayal of a youth suicide was insensitive. Netflix have stated that they plan to…

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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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5 min

Politics

The Answer to Hateful Speech is Better Speech: An Invitation to a Debate

This essay anticipates a debate at the University of Leeds which will be live streamed on Inaya’s YouTube channel, on 7 May, from 5.30–7.30pm (BST). Two narratives have dominated discourse…

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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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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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10 min

Politics

Liberalism as Pluralism: A Conservative Argument.

There are several possible conservative arguments for the liberal tradition, especially within Anglo-American strains of liberalism. Michael Novak’s book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, a serious account of the type…

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Freedom of Expression

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

Netflix Has Their “Han Shot First” Moment with 13 Reasons Why

The Grain of Truth Behind Calls to Restrict Debate

The Internet Is Making You Less Free

The Answer to Hateful Speech is Better Speech: An Invitation to a Debate

In Defense of Hate Speech

Is Battle Rap the Last True Bastion of Free Speech?

How Did Free Speech Get Here?

Areopagitica for Millennials

Liberalism as Pluralism: A Conservative Argument.

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