Fall ‘22 “And More” Collection
A collection of additional articles/content of interest from Fall 2022.
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Can’t Both Sides Back Free Speech? (WSJ, 12/21/22)
Why globalism is the enemy of freedom (Spectator, 12/20/22)
David French: The "Twitter Files" Show It’s Time to Reimagine Free Speech Online Platforms tried speech codes. (Persuasion, 12/12/22)
Jimmy Lai Faces Communist Justice in Hong Kong*— For those of us who are free, our job is to keep his story alive—to ensure that the world never forgets. (WSJ, 11/29/22)
Brokenism*: The real debate today isn’t between the left and right. It’s between those invested in our current institutions, and those who want to build anew (Tablet, 11/21/22)
Everyone’s Wrong about FIRE (Chronicle of Higher Ed, 11/30/22); Related: How FIRE Actually Defends Free Speech (Chronicle, 12/7/22)
America Is Pursuing Happiness in All the Wrong Places* (Atlantic, 11/15/22)—by Harvard’s Arthur Brooks
The New Woke Discrimination Demands a New Law: Expand the Civil Rights Act to protect employees from being fired for their political beliefs.(WSJ, 11/15/22)
‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ is Just the Beginning: Libraries are the new culture-war battleground as woke politics invade some of America’s most enlightened and democratic institutions. (WSJ, 11/11/22)
What’s the Point of Civics Education?* Not even one fourth of teachers rank knowledge of political and civic institutions as a top-three concern. (HKS’s Education Next, 11/4/22)
The New Gatekeepers: How major institutions of American society came to sing woke chorus, what can be done* (Tablet, 10/25/22)
Can Democracy Exist without Liberalism? When differences of opinion become existential, citizens—in the U.S. and around the world—must find a way to manage them. (Atlantic, 10/19/22)
To understand the woke, you have to understand The Culture of Narcissism (Washington Examiner, 10/15/22)
The problem of political polarization lies largely in how we think (The Hill, 9/30/22)
Never Apologize for Trying to Tell the Truth— Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians. (Quillette, 9/13/22); See additional articles related to Sweet’s apology.
At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech (NYT, 9/13/22)
