Educating oneself on free speech issues can be a daunting task, with hundreds of books to choose from. In this article Steve Simpson, a constitutional lawyer with decades of experience in the field, recommends a dozen. . .
Crisis, Lies and Morality: Snyder’s On Tyranny
Would you recognize the signs of an incipient tyranny? Would you know how to oppose it? Timothy Snyder’s incisive book, On Tyranny, aims to distill enduring lessons from the twentieth century on the rise and functioning. . .
Social Media Are Victims, Not Villains, in Russian Scandal
Scapegoating social media in the Russian influence scandal is the opening salvo in an effort to place social media under government control. Already we are hearing that these companies have too much “power” and should. . .
Justice in a Benevolent Universe
Objectivism is an atheistic philosophy, but it nevertheless maintains that, in a specialized sense, the universe is benevolent. It doesn’t say that the good always wins, even “ultimately," but rather that the good is. . .