Cuba’s Imprisoned Truth
An interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera.
Justo Antonio Triana
· 11 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 227 posts
Podcast #233: Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a ‘community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations’
Quillette
· 29 min read
Australia's New Free Speech Union: Quillette Cetera Episode 29
A conversation with the director of Australia's new Free Speech Union.
Zoe Booth
· 1 min read
The Case Against Content Moderation
Aggressive content moderation is presented as a necessary response to hate speech and misinformation—but it's more like a moral panic.
Sam Kahn
· 15 min read
India’s Illiberal First Amendment
The Indian government’s tendency to crack down on speech of which it disapproves dates from the founding of the republic.
Anwesh Satpathy
· 11 min read
Lights Out in America
The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
The Harvard Double Standard
And how higher education can reform from within.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 12 min read
Understanding Woke Antisemitism: Quillette Cetera Episode 25
A conversation with author and free-speech advocate David Bernstein.
Zoe Booth
· 1 min read
The Heckler’s Veto and the Right to Free Association
It's not just a matter of weighing up one group’s free speech against another group’s counter-speech. It’s also about one group’s freedom of association being impeded.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 8 min read
The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell
Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.
James Huffman
· 9 min read
Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox
The true power of free expression is revealed even in defenses of speech advocating against it.
Angel Eduardo
· 6 min read
The Great Misinformation Panic
By going to war against "misinformation" governments are merely diverting finite resources from addressing real harm to people and property, which purportedly justifies the panic in the first place.
Dara Macdonald
· 8 min read
Fear and Self-Censorship in Higher Education
Unless we can conquer our anxiety and restructure the way we interact, dreams of social unification will remain dead on arrival.
Ash Kahn
· 11 min read
Corporate Rainbow Marketing: Too Much of a Good Thing
A recent dust-up involving NHL goalie James Reimer demonstrates the folly of pitting Pride PR against the conscience of individual actors.
Allan Stratton
· 7 min read
Words Don’t Matter
We have power over words, not vice versa.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 6 min read