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.
A Review of The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men by Phoebe Maltz Bovy, 288 pages, Penguin Random House (May…
The claim that Jews are imperialist “colonisers” isn’t new. It emerged from the Victorian-era antisemitism of an influential English journalist…
Playing Gad Gad Saad’s new book tackles an interesting topic. Unfortunately, the author’s narcissistic ramblings make it almost impossible to…
I.In the introduction to his 1991 book Orwell: The Authorised Biography, Michael Shelden distinguishes his approach from that of Bernard…
Four years ago, comedian Sarah Silverman told her podcast listeners about how disappointed she was in her friend Dave Chappelle—who’d…
Across the Western world, the public narrative on the topic of employment has for decades been dominated by a single,…
This week, our podcast is brought to you courtesy of HonestReporting Canada, a Toronto-based organisation that promotes fairness and accuracy…
From the Kurdish frontline facing the Islamic State, I watched through binoculars as fighters stood in pickup trucks rigged with…
In April 2020, I published an essay in these pages investigating attempts to boost minority (specifically black) enrolment in America’s…
A review of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn; 352…
The past two years have seen vilifications of Israel galore, by both traditional anti-Zionists and antisemites and by those minted…
Every day that passes without a final conclusion to hostilities in the Persian Gulf multiplies possibilities and deepens a situation…