Freedom IndexOpinions
Opinions features commentary, analysis, and perspectives on the state of free speech, censorship, and digital rights. This category offers a platform for diverse voices to debate and reflect on pressing issues shaping the future of open expression.
On 31 July, Amnesty International publicly apologised for publishing an “anti-rights” briefing at the heart of a weeks-long public clash…
The story of Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor who has just resigned amid a scandal involving plagiarism, fabulism, and résumé-padding,…
In late November 2023, seven weeks after Hamas’s 7 October terrorist attacks, I attended a private roundtable at the Jordanian…
In 1940, one of the great literary showdowns of the last century took place between one of Britain’s great men…
He who only knows his own side knows of the case, knows little of that.~John Stuart Mill I started graduate…
In what we know as the Middle East, a dramatic jump in the emerging pattern of human violence took place…
In this episode of Quillette Cetera, Zoe Sankey speaks with Jordan Lasker—better known by his pen name Crémieux—the bioinformatician and…
A review of Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling by Frank Miller; 224 pages;…
Editor’s note: the following essay discusses Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves in detail and contains spoilers throughout. Tolling…
This week on the Quillette podcast, I’ll be speaking with Ashley Rubin, a professor at the University of Hawaii, and…
Note: the following review contains plot spoilers.In the opening lines of his poem Ithaka, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933), the second-most…
Like others who have spent years reading, re-reading, studying, teaching, and being entranced by the Homeric epics, I looked forward…