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.
Four years ago, amid the run-up to the 2022 Winter Olympics, an Indigenous-led Canadian group announced it was seeking to…
Populism’s Self-Defeating Trap Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the…
Interview by Pamela Paresky.In this wide-ranging interview conducted by Pamela Paresky, historian Gadi Taub discusses his legal battle with journalist…
Determinism, Self-Determinism, and Your Future SelfIn 1985, the physiologist Benjamin Libet conducted a series of experiments that involved taking EEG…
Software can now write software better than even the most advanced human experts. And where software has gone, the other…
America’s Jeffrey Epstein feeding frenzy received renewed sustenance on 30 January when the Trump Justice Department released about 3.5 million…
On 10 February, Jesse Van Rootselaar (also known as Jesse Strang) killed eight people in the remote British Columbia mining…
On 15 February 1942, the largest surrender in British military history took place in Singapore. After eight days of desperate…
In some of the most beautiful and prosperous places in America, a curious paradox has taken hold: the people who…
Written by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox, read by William Laing.This video essay written by demographers Joel Kotkin and Wendell…
A review of The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman, 344 pages,…
“Do you realise that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we’ve ever had to face?” This…