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.
Introduction: I’m Iona Italia, Managing Editor at Quillette. And today, we’re bringing you an episode from the Areo Magazine archives,…
Nouvelle Vague—Richard Linklater’s new movie about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s landmark debut feature À Bout de Souffle (Breathless)—is a…
It was a shock, but it was not a surprise. Two men driven by their pathological hatred of Jews have…
The antisemitic Bondi Beach terrorist attacks have brought the global intifada to one of the farther-flung corners of the English-speaking…
Report by Claire Lehmann from the Bondi Beach terror attack vigil.Claire Lehmann reports from Bondi Beach in Sydney after a…
The last time I saw my stepmother’s father was in the mid-1980s, in a long-term care facility in Ithaca, New…
Tonight’s massacre on Bondi Beach is the deadliest terrorist attack ever carried out on Australian soil, and the worst attack…
Over the past week, the following things happened in Canada.On 2 December, a dissident academic named Frances Widdowson travelled to…
Imagine that some forty-odd years after your death, someone tells a terrible lie about you that many people hear and…
China is rightly considered an economic wonder. Since the late 1970s, when it was one of the most backward nations…
From algorithmic incentives to progressive posturing, this episode explores how antisemitism has become a feature—not a bug—of influencer culture. Zoe…
As focus shifts to post-war aid and reconstruction in Gaza, the role played during the conflict by organisations with ostensibly…