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 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…
Earlier this month, the Federal Court of Australia dismissed claims brought by the concert pianist Jayson Gillham against the Melbourne…