DURING the last week while the Independent show of pictures has been hung in the Waldorf (the management has had to keep a fire hose playing on the pictures to keep them from setting fire to the ...

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday criticized populists and those who engage in “absolutism” in her final speech as prime minister -- as she defended her own desire for compromise in ...

The protection of extramural speech may be necessary, but academics should acknowledge the magnitude of the privilege they’re claiming, Deepa Das Acevedo writes. (I say “as far as we know” because ...

This new article is here. The Introduction: Free speech absolutism has seemingly had its day, inasmuch as scholarly and public (if not judicial) opinion are increasingly hostile to the idea that more ...

Elon Musk at The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The New York Times) Soon after Musk ...

In 2014, billionaire Nick Hanauer warned in Politico that “The Pitchforks Are Coming … For Us Plutocrats.” He argued that extreme inequality inevitably leads to revolution, comparing it to bankruptcy ...

With the critical need for greater global cooperation to restore climate balance and reduce climate change, why are we waiting for sweeping systems changes and government reform? There will be no real ...

I am a free-speech absolutist. My conviction has only grown stronger over the last decade, even as the idea appears to have fallen out of favor on the left and right. To echo the famous line often ...

Aside from a small assortment of political extremists, religious fanatics, and rabid ideologues, few today are more certain of their position, or less open to the views of others, than those who ...

In the realm of politics, transparency and personal integrity of the caliph was the hallmark of the Muslim rule It is my proud privilege that some very esteemed people take out time to read and ...