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 this episode of Quillette Cetera, Zoe Sankey speaks with Rachel Moiselle, a doctoral student in linguistics at Trinity College…
On a black volcanic beach, Christopher Nolan peers into a wheeled contraption that looks like a portable air-conditioner. The IMAX…
I’ve often used the term “social panic” to describe the unmarked-graves claims that swept through Canada in 2021. For reasons…
A review of Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov; 243 pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 2026)Omer Bartov, a…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which…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…