Freedom IndexDebates
Debates showcases discussions and arguments around controversial issues in free speech and censorship. From academic debates to public discourse, this category highlights contrasting perspectives on where to draw the line between expression, safety, and regulation.
The Science Misinformation Gap The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship. Read the full article here
In mid-2025, Bumble’s founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returned to the company she had left fourteen months earlier and offered a…
Progress inevitably creates Inescapable Existential Dangers (IEDs): technological developments that yield huge benefits with high extinction risks. The acceptance of…
The Northern Territory holds a special place in the Australian imagination: an endless outback, home to iconic Australian places like…
The Lumière awards in Paris are French cinema’s equivalent of the Golden Globes—not as coveted as the César awards, but…
IntroductionIn this week’s edition of the Quillette podcast, I talk to writer, journalist and cultural commentator Phoebe Maltz Bovy. Phoebe…
In this episode of the Quillette Cetera Podcast, Zoe Booth speaks with classicist James Kierstead about a question that has…
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The claim that Jews are imperialist “colonisers” isn’t new. It emerged from the Victorian-era antisemitism of an influential English journalist…
Playing Gad Gad Saad’s new book tackles an interesting topic. Unfortunately, the author’s narcissistic ramblings make it almost impossible to…
I.In the introduction to his 1991 book Orwell: The Authorised Biography, Michael Shelden distinguishes his approach from that of Bernard…
Four years ago, comedian Sarah Silverman told her podcast listeners about how disappointed she was in her friend Dave Chappelle—who’d…