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.
In the early 1930s, the Australian government lost a war against emus, and its present war, this time on tobacco,…
Robin Dembroff’s highly anticipated Oxford University Press book, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality, hit shelves in…
Earlier this year, a human rights tribunal ordered a former school trustee in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Barry…
A review of The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life after AI by Cory Doctorow; 240 pages; Verso (June 2026)In late…
The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which…
On 6 July, at 12:01pm China Standard Time, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) launched a ballistic missile carrying a…
Editor’s note: the text that follows has been adapted, with permission of the authors, from “State of Scholarship in the…
Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who…
Nearly every war Israel has fought has been reactive and mostly unplanned. It had to fend off armed attack from…
Every four years the world gathers to remind Americans that soccer is boring. The World Cup arrives, a billion people…
The film critic Pauline Kael once said that a friendship cannot survive too many disagreements about movies. What would she…
Claire Lehmann sits down with Parnell Palme McGuinness—columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and senior research fellow…