Ilhan Omar Falls Victim to the Outrage Exhibitionists
In attacking the representative over a small, unintentional slight, Donald Trump and the populist right are displaying bad faith.
The Speech Wars
The fight over free expression
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How to Save the News Media
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Creating Conservative Universities Is Not the Answer
Increasing the ideological diversity of higher education as a whole, while decreasing it within individual institutions, would bring us closer to a fundamental and permanent political separation.
John Oliver’s Weak Case for Callout Culture
Why the HBO host is wrong that public shaming encourages public accountability
Trump’s Redundant Executive Order on Campus Speech
The president’s much-anticipated directive doesn’t do much.
Chelsea Clinton in the Hall of Mirrors
Once callout culture takes hold, it never ends.
Weibo’s Free-Speech Failure
How a dissident movement almost broke through China’s internet censorship