The Academic Quarrel over Determinism
Still, the universe is full of things that seem irrefutably evident and yet can’t be well explained or understood.
William Tomos Edwards
· 8 min read
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The Uncertain Boundaries of Corporate Morality
Corporations are increasingly prone to formulating explicit moral positions on issues of social importance and punishing those who fail to condone such positions to the extent that they are able to do so.
Cameron Hendy
· 5 min read
Whither Léon Blum?—Paul Berman's Misplaced Faith in Bernie Sanders
Jeremy Corbyn’s record of praising terrorist organizations and celebrating artwork that looks like it was commissioned by Joseph Goebbels to the long list of condemnations of Labour issued by Jewish organizations in the UK.
Matt Johnson
· 12 min read
Post-Liberal Politics—Left, Right, and Center
By uniting these groups, centrist post-liberals can put the Western world on a new political path, one that promises to restore hope, renew virtue, and recover a shared world.
M.T. Steiner
· 10 min read
Antifa's Brutal Assault on Andy Ngo Is a Wake-Up Call—for Authorities and Journalists Alike
The Antifa thugs who attacked Quillette editor and photojournalist Andy Ngo in Portland yesterday did not quite manage to crack his skull.
Quillette
· 5 min read
Eastern Europe’s Emigration Crisis
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.
Josh Adams
· 6 min read
Say It Ain’t So, Doc: How Should Martin Luther King Scholars Deal With the Rape Story?
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.
Stephen Smith
· 6 min read
Publicly Shaming a Musician for Calling a Composition by Its Name
The silencing of a voice does not lead to discourse, in art or in politics.
Kurt Gottschalk
· 7 min read
Four Flavors of Doom: A Taxonomy of Contemporary Pessimism
Pessimism is not just factually wrong, it is also harmful because it undermines our confidence in our ability to bring about further progress.
Maarten Boudry
· 10 min read
The Impressive Record of Theresa May
Skeptics say these are fiddled figures that don’t account for the “explosion” of zero hours contracts.
Tal Tyagi
· 10 min read
The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On
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.
Tony Fels
· 27 min read
What Defenders and Critics Get Wrong about the 'Marketplace of Ideas'
The motif of the marketplace of ideas, Stanley argues, only works with descriptive speech.
Mohamed Ali
· 6 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
How Free Speech Dies Online
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.
Daniel Friedman
· 14 min read
The Inner Nature of Freedom
The primarily political differences, therefore, emerge over how best to realize freedom, and of course, what freedom itself means.
Matt McManus
· 11 min read