Free Speech and Censorship

“Free Speech: Why the *Philosophy* Matters” [Open College series]

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The first episode of my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast/open-college-1-free-speech Topics: What a meaningful life requires // Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics // Walt Whitman quotation // Why the authoritarian left? // How we got to where we are now // Galileo […]

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Polish translation of “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?”

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[The following is a translation into Polish of my “Is Republishing Hitler’s *Mein Kampf* the Correct Decision?” Thanks to Professor Piotr Kostyło for making this translation possible.] Czy ponowna publikacja książki Adolfa Hitlera Mein Kampf jest słuszną decyzją? Po długich dekadach obowiązywania zakazu, niemieckie władze wyrażają zgodę na ponowną publikację książki Adolfa Hitlera Mein Kampf.

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Professor Mehta’s firing: four quick hypotheses

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Acadia University fired a tenured professor. Still not much hard information to go on. But from the public documents, those of us to don’t know the professor or the university atmosphere personally can glean four hypotheses. He was fired because: 1. His positions are ideologically wrong, according to his campus enemies. 2. His manner of

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Persian translation of “Hitler and the Death of Free Speech”

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Thanks to Mohamad Machine-Chian for this translation. It was first published as two separate columns in The Good Life series as “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?” and “Is Free Speech Dead in Universities?” The two articles were edited by Vinay Kolhatkar and published at The Savvy Street. The articles were also translated

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“The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech” — now at Church and State

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My “The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “The point is not that poverty and injuries are not real and serious issues to grapple with. The point is that the same tactics are at work in the Trigger strategy — the explicit use of weakness, trauma, victimhood

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“Campus Power Politics” republished [Church and State]

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My “The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “The protesting students are neither ‘snowflakes’ who can’t take the heat nor ‘delicate flowers’ whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn

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“University should teach you to make nuanced judgments”

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Reposting for the new academic year: “University should teach you to make nuanced judgments. If you think there are only your views, and everyone else is Hitler, that’s a problem with you. You’re not an educated mind yet.” From my interview in Toronto’s Metro Canada newspaper’s “Defining Free Speech on Campus,” (page 9) as one

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