The Glee of the Mob: On the Murder of Discourse Itself
There are few spectacles more repugnant to the civilized mind than the sight of educated adults celebrating an assassination. Yet this is precisely what we witnessed in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder at Utah Valley University.
Kimmel Suspension and Freedom of Speech
Government officials need not act directly to censor speech.
“Greenwashing” and the Anatomy of Compromise
As Ayn Rand explains in her short essay The Anatomy of Compromise, compromising rational principles never works.
Freedom For Me But Not For Thee
We cannot have a country where the rights of one person matter more than the rights of another, simply because they were born in a different country or are the descendants of someone who was.
The Kirk Assassination: A Nihilistic Farce in the Theater of the Absurd
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is not your garden-variety spasm of partisan idiocy or sectarian spite.
Evil Flourishes When Reason is Abandoned
. Charlie Kirk was correct when he said, “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” But it is even more accurate to say, as Ayn Rand pointed out, “When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.”
EU Big Brother Menaces Freedom & Innovation
Under the pretext of protecting children from online predators, the privacy of millions of users could be undermined.
Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur
Frederick Douglass unique contribution to American political philosophy is well summarized in the contrast between the mottos he and Garrison used for their newspapers. Instead of Garrison’s call for separation, “no union with slaveholders,” Douglass demanded equality: “All rights for all. ”
Why Broadcasters Still Have “Junior Varsity” First Amendment Rights
Networks and local affiliates try to avoid programming that might strike FCC regulators as misleading, tasteless, or shocking. The FCC has never disavowed its authority over content, and the sword of Damocles still hangs over every licensee.
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