Category:Free Speech
Spiked Magazine Panel – "Identity Politics: The New Racialism on Campus?"
October 13, 2017 | Video
Does Identity politics cut us off from important conversations on issues that affect us all? Watch the Unsafe Space Tour panel discussion at Rutgers University featuring Kmele Foster, Sarah Haider, Bryan Stascavage, and Mark Lilla. Moderated by Tom Slater (of Spiked Magazine).
What Are Heuristics?
September 25, 2017 | Video
We all use heuristics to make everyday decisions — but sometimes they blind us to the truth. So we need to do something that doesn’t come easy: accept that our ideas might be wrong.
Do You Have the Courage to Dissent?
September 18, 2017 | Video
Ever felt like you disagree with everyone around you, but don’t dare to speak up? These famous experiments by Solomon Asch and Richard Crutchfield show you may not be as alone as you think.
It’s useless to yell at racists. So what can we do about them?
August 22, 2017 | Post
Shaming may be successful at shutting people up. But changing their minds? That’s a different task entirely.
Diary of a stupid jerk: why we need free speech on campus
August 21, 2017 | Post
Like just about every other male between the ages of 13 and 25, I had tendencies, habits, and dispositions that could be charitably described as self-absorbed and boorish.
Ugly, senseless, hateful speech — it’s still not violence
August 18, 2017 | Post
The health effects of speech are inherently subjective. So who decides what speech is “harmful”?