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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.
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which…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…