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.
When the Danish scholar Bjorn Lomborg published The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, the reaction from the environmental establishment was not debate but…
In his 1973 account of the Soviet prison system, The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn memorably cautions:If only it were all…
The Ingratitude of the Well-Fed We need to cultivate an appreciation for the abundance that modernity has bestowed instead of…
The New Medievals Read the full article here
November 6, 2012, the day Barack Obama was re-elected as U.S. president, was bright and blisteringly cold in Maryland. I…
John Searle, one of the preeminent philosophers in the Anglophone tradition, died late in September. Ironically, the man who coined…
Witnessing the world conflagration that was the French Revolution, the French philosopher Joseph de Maistre lamented that “if there is…
With the federal government now back open after the recent shutdown, one critical vehicle for formulating public health policy is…
As he is palpably changing America, President Trump is also trying to restructure the Middle East, perhaps as radically as…
I first noticed a pattern of chatbot evasion when I made a straightforward inquiry about logical coherence. I wanted to…
This week on the podcast, we’re going to be getting into the Christmas spirit early, and in the most festive…
Whenever I return to the Maasai country, on the marches of southern Kenya and Tanzania, I find it at once…