Freedom IndexOpinions
Opinions features commentary, analysis, and perspectives on the state of free speech, censorship, and digital rights. This category offers a platform for diverse voices to debate and reflect on pressing issues shaping the future of open expression.
The antisemitic Bondi Beach terrorist attacks have brought the global intifada to one of the farther-flung corners of the English-speaking…
Report by Claire Lehmann from the Bondi Beach terror attack vigil.Claire Lehmann reports from Bondi Beach in Sydney after a…
The last time I saw my stepmother’s father was in the mid-1980s, in a long-term care facility in Ithaca, New…
Tonight’s massacre on Bondi Beach is the deadliest terrorist attack ever carried out on Australian soil, and the worst attack…
Over the past week, the following things happened in Canada.On 2 December, a dissident academic named Frances Widdowson travelled to…
Imagine that some forty-odd years after your death, someone tells a terrible lie about you that many people hear and…
China is rightly considered an economic wonder. Since the late 1970s, when it was one of the most backward nations…
From algorithmic incentives to progressive posturing, this episode explores how antisemitism has become a feature—not a bug—of influencer culture. Zoe…
As focus shifts to post-war aid and reconstruction in Gaza, the role played during the conflict by organisations with ostensibly…
Astonishing recent advances in generative AI mean that in a matter of seconds, with a prompt and a few clicks,…
The execution was not going as planned. Robert-François Damiens, convicted of attempting to assassinate the King, had his arms and…
A review of American Canto by Olivia Nuzzi, 320 pages, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster (December 2025)What would you expect…