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.
This week on the Quillette podcast, I’ll be talking about the ongoing battle over transgender identity, which was the subject…
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Moynihan report. It also marks the 60th year of arguments over…
A review of Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream…
A review of Never Again: How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself by Jake Wallis Simons, 320 pages, Constable…
Editor’s note: The following essay assumes familiarity with all three seasons of The White Lotus. Spoilers are included throughout.I.When it…
Editor’s Note—This piece was first published in Areo Magazine in July 2018. Since that time, the medicalisation of human unhappiness…
In this episode of the Quillette Podcast, host Zoe Booth speaks with Dr Dani Sulikowski, an evolutionary behavioural scientist and…
Last month, Quillette published an excerpt from Chess.com co-founder Danny Rensch’s newly published memoir, detailing the epidemic of cheating that’s…
Liberalism v The Rule of Law Two recent Australian Federal Court judgments illustrate the good things that the rule of…
We were barely five minutes past orgasm when the conversation suddenly turned to genocide. It was late on a weeknight…
A review of To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban by Jon Lee Anderson, 400 pages, Penguin…
Editor’s note: This interview was conducted on 22 September.PP: The US was the only vote against the resolution for an…