Another day, another opportunity for huffy, hypocritical “progressive” posturing. PEN America has now been forced to cancel its World Voices literary festival in New York and LA, on the heels of also cancelling its 2024 awards ceremony. Too many authors …
Will Neuralink make thinking a crime?
When he reported that his company, Neuralink, had successfully inserted a chip inside a living person’s skull, Elon Musk unleashed a predictable moral panic. For many, this was the first step towards a world where our thoughts are monitored, assessed …
Liberals have forgotten what free speech means
Away from the horror unfolding in Israel, the past month has provided one long acid test for the West’s commitment to liberal values. What are we to make of middle-class bien pensants asserting that mass murder requires “context”, of the …
Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter Is a Step in the Right Direction for Freedom of Speech
by David Thunder, The Freedom Blog. Re-published with permission.
The acquisition of Twitter by entrepreneur and business magnate Elon Musk for the handsome sum of $44 billion will almost certainly have far-reaching consequences for the way the global public sphere…