Russia's Remaining Independent Journalists Suffer for Their Work
Journalists often do their best work in places that offer the least welcoming environment.
Journalists often do their best work in places that offer the least welcoming environment.
Substack's Hamish McKenzie on censorship, discourse, and Joe Rogan.
Reporting that makes Black Lives Matter look bad should not be covered up by social media companies.
Left-leaning outlets and tech giants tried to label them disinformation—until they no longer could.
Compact brings "labor populism" and "political Catholicism" under one roof.
Today's journalists aren't speaking truth to power by not-so-subtly agitating for direct military involvement in Ukraine.
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The Founders Fund vice president and Pirate Wires author on supporting heretics as a means of social and economic innovation.
In the new book Free Speech, the Danish activist defends radical self-expression from Socrates to social media.
"At the core of libertarianism is the idea that people are assets."
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The novelist and essayist attacked CNN's handling of Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan—and promptly drew the ugly ire of the podcaster's admirers!
The scandal du jour reminds us that radical free speech is alive and well.
You're talking about him, aren't you?
The New York Times and The Washington Post shamed the recipient of a pig heart transplant for committing a crime 35 years ago.
"Governments realize that they are in an existential battle over who controls information."
The show eschews simplistic political commentary, choosing instead to spoof America's self-obsessed, self-dealing elites.
After the cops killed her, the A.P. gave her the "no angel" treatment.
Last year may have been the year of the Cuomosexual, but 2021 rightly disabused people of the notion that New York's governor had their best interests at heart.
It's a fairly benign thing to say. And yet it's a landmine in our media landscape.
Offending the powerful can be dangerous in an increasingly authoritarian world.
Either everybody gets to enjoy journalistic freedom, or it will turn into glorified public relations work for the powers-that-be.
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A good way to know you’re living through high inflation is when you’re discouraged from talking about it.
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This is where government demands to moderate what users say will ultimately lead.
Robby Soave doesn't like it when social media deplatforms users, but the far bigger threat comes from lawmakers on a mission.
Persuading vaccine objectors is a much better approach than imposing coercive top-down mandates.
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Here’s why Section 230 is so important.
Friday A/V Club: Some people are against concentrated media power. Some just want to bend it to their will.
The When Rabbis Bless Congress author and C-SPAN honcho on a weird political tradition and the glorious death of legacy media
Do we really need the state to step in over an unfortunate tragedy?
The popular podcaster and comedian on the future of the Libertarian Party, his vaccine hesitancy, and fighting the culture war
The existence of politically biased websites is not a crisis.
From the other side of the world, the regime plots ways to chill free speech.
The Fox News pundit’s emails were probably reviewed legally—and that’s part of the problem.
After Chinese authorities conducted newsroom raids and arrested top editors, pro-democracy publication Apple Daily realized it could no longer safely operate.
Advertisers found that appeasing an illiberal mob wasn’t a safe choice after all.
China’s government emphasizes control over prosperity while a demoralized West offers little opposition.
Why is it so hard for him to just admit he was wrong?
"A lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science."
The new report doesn't reveal anything we didn't already know.
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