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.
Adam Wakeling is a historian based in Melbourne. While he has a day job as a lawyer, he is also…
Last July, talk-show host and comic Stephen Colbert used his opening monologue on The Late Show to address the news…
It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s…
Hava Mendelle defies easy categorisation. Openly gay and proudly Jewish, she is a fifteen-year Australian Army veteran, emergency department nurse,…
The popular reputation of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) is captured in a famous anecdote about Margaret Thatcher. Before becoming Britain’s Prime…
Henry Nowak should first be remembered as an eighteen-year-old who had moved to Southampton to begin adult life. He was…
In the summer of 2014, my wife and I were forced to flee our hometown of Donetsk after it was…
My father’s dissertation adviser emigrated from the USSR on the eve of his postdoctoral defence. In the Soviet Union, emigration…
The closest thing Canada has to The New York Times is The Globe & Mail, a Toronto-based newspaper that defines—to…
In a recent article for UnHerd, Richard Dawkins revealed that he had spent three days trying to persuade himself that…
On 15 April, forty out of 47 Democratic Senators voted for Bernie Sanders’s motion to block arms sales to Israel.…
This week, I have a guest whom many of you will know from the culture war over transgender rights—former University…