The Boston Marathon's Ban on Russian Athletes Is Hypocritical Xenophobia
The world isn't made a better place by treating individual athletes as appendages of their governments.
The world isn't made a better place by treating individual athletes as appendages of their governments.
An exhibit featuring 19th-century Jewish American artwork was axed after the university objected to two artists who supported the Confederacy.
"Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians."
The editorial board of UVA's The Cavalier Daily should abandon its effort to keep Mike Pence off campus.
"I am a queer woman, and I was silenced most of my life," writes Lauren Hough, author of Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing.
And it will only drive people further into the arms of President Vladimir Putin.
The National Museum of Wales is suggesting that 19th-century innovations that enabled economic development are somehow tainted by slavery.
A plurality of young people think their fear of losing job opportunities is a price worth paying to remedy past injustices.
In the new book Free Speech, the Danish activist defends radical self-expression from Socrates to social media.
The scandal du jour reminds us that radical free speech is alive and well.
Linguist John McWhorter on the ways social justice activists have betrayed black Americans.
“I regret my poor choice of words, which undermine my message that no one should be discriminated against for his or her gender or skin color,” Shapiro tells Reason.
The P.C. culture of the '80s and '90s didn't decline and fall. It just went underground. Now it's back.
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"This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated," says one of the cancellation's defenders.
Steven Earnest thought the most trivial of incidents did not merit the university's concern.
When employees tried their hand at a shakedown, CEO Ted Sarandos buckled a bit under the pressure.
No one is safe from Chappelle's jokes—but also, everyone is safe from Chappelle's jokes.
"If you want to fight the impulse that we human beings have to feel better than others," says Chloé Valdary, "it's a bad idea to make people so insecure."
Bright Sheng survived the Cultural Revolution. Or so he thought.
Emma Sarley's employer might come to regret instantly firing her.
The unexpectedly acrimonious search for a new host is undermining Alex Trebek's legacy.
The man was actually calling for Dinger, the team's mascot.
The most subversive thing about the movie is that the director was allowed to make it at all.
Forget Robin DiAngelo and White Fragility. Theory of Enchantment uses popular culture to make workplaces more inclusive and welcoming.
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The comedian and podcaster talks about running for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination and his beef with Reason.
The popular podcaster and comedian on the future of the Libertarian Party, his vaccine hesitancy, and fighting the culture war
The Irreversible Damage author talks about getting deplatformed from Target and her support for gender-reassignment interventions.
Advertisers found that appeasing an illiberal mob wasn’t a safe choice after all.
The rent-seekers' rebellion has achieved little beyond dispelling the Marxist notion of class struggle.
"I chose to be that guy who didn't issue the apology," says Daniel Elder. "Things went from there and it wasn't good."
The creator of ultra-woke poet Titania McGrath makes the case against cancel culture.
A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.
The creator of Titania McGrath on cancel culture, government overreach, and younger generations' willingness to censor
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The Columbia linguist discusses his new book Nine Nasty Words and dismisses the ideological excesses of the 'anti-racism' movement.
The drive to punish dissenters from various orthodoxies is itself illiberal.
Remember when Republicans believed private businesses had a right to exercise free speech?
The chaos at Lake Washington Institute of Technology is by no means an isolated occurrence.
The journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher education, and Hollywood.
The leader of the mob follows the victim to the gallows.
The Singapore-born journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher ed, and Hollywood.
When Amazon won't sell your book, you can head to Barnes & Noble. When government cancels your expression, there's nowhere left to go.
Politicians on the right and the left are coming for your free speech.