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.
On 29 April, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green. Their assailant was a British-Somali man, Essa Suleiman, who…
Anyone who makes a regular habit of reading my Quillette columns knows all about the “unmarked graves” social panic that…
In 1976, Peter Frampton was a guitar player who was respected among his more popular peers despite having enjoyed no…
If the treatment of gender dysphoric youth were treated like any other medical topic, there would be little controversy about…
In July 1998, the Rome Statute created the legal basis for the International Criminal Court (ICC), a body designed to…
The Science Misinformation Gap The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship. Read the full article here
In mid-2025, Bumble’s founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returned to the company she had left fourteen months earlier and offered a…
Progress inevitably creates Inescapable Existential Dangers (IEDs): technological developments that yield huge benefits with high extinction risks. The acceptance of…
The Northern Territory holds a special place in the Australian imagination: an endless outback, home to iconic Australian places like…
The Lumière awards in Paris are French cinema’s equivalent of the Golden Globes—not as coveted as the César awards, but…
IntroductionIn this week’s edition of the Quillette podcast, I talk to writer, journalist and cultural commentator Phoebe Maltz Bovy. Phoebe…
In this episode of the Quillette Cetera Podcast, Zoe Booth speaks with classicist James Kierstead about a question that has…