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.
Nearly every war Israel has fought has been reactive and mostly unplanned. It had to fend off armed attack from…
Every four years the world gathers to remind Americans that soccer is boring. The World Cup arrives, a billion people…
The film critic Pauline Kael once said that a friendship cannot survive too many disagreements about movies. What would she…
Claire Lehmann sits down with Parnell Palme McGuinness—columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and senior research fellow…
A review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders by Claudia Verhoeven; 384 pages; Verso (May 2026)Although…
The questions were put to me without malice: Are you Jewish? And is that why you have written about antisemitism…
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In the spring of 1945, weeks after liberation, a Jewish editor named Yehuda Eismann sat in a Bucharest office and…
Science does not often advance in sudden epiphanies that yield “Eureka” moments. More typical are years of failed experiments, dogged…
I brought a 510-million-year-old trilobite I’d split out of Cambrian shale four hours north of Las Vegas to show a…
Americans are presently engaged in a bitter fight over their national identity. Liberals argue that America is an idea, a…
Although I was not sure why until quite recently, I spent over thirty years struggling with something I was never…