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.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.~Robert Frost In his 1949 book The…
I vividly recall a meeting of our philosophy department a few years ago when a student representative—or perhaps a young…
There are scandals that expose corruption, and there are scandals that expose temperament. The Chomsky–Epstein affair belongs in the second…
From my press-gallery vantage point on 25 March, the United Nations General Assembly didn’t seem like a body wrestling with…
This piece contains major spoilers for both the book and film versions of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary. I also…
Good men can make terrible kings … but bad men cannot make good kings.~Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension The…
The landslide defeat suffered by Viktor Orbán in Hungary on 12 April has dealt a body blow to global postliberalism…
A selection of essays and interviews in Quillette examining how and why Iran and the West are at war, and…
On 12 September 1962, John F. Kennedy famously proclaimed space to be the “new frontier.” JFK did not actually care…
In March 2016, the world was about to watch a paradigm shift. Google Deepmind’s AlphaGo team challenged Lee Sedol, the…
This week’s Economist defined the current two-week ceasefire in the American/Israeli–Iranian war that began on 28 February as a “whimper”—and…
The worst serial killer in Canadian history was a British Columbia pig farmer named Robert Pickton. During the 1990s, he…