Shock: China does not understand freedom of speech
I know it might come as somewhat of a shock for you, so brace yourself, my dear reader: a country without a freedom of speech does not understand the concept …
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Don’t ban death wishes
Twitter swings wildly and widely in their editorial policies: The four progressive Democratic congresswomen known as “The Squad” expressed surprise on Friday night when Twitter posted about its policy against wishing harm …
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A Streetcar Named Freedom
It’s always fun watching some red on red violence (no metaphor here – as we have now been repeatedly told, words are violence too), and the latest outbreak is particularly …
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Ultraviolet Wrong Because Orange Man Bad
This is an incredible story of science versus the political-media complex: I ran an obscure pharmaceutical company until a few days ago. Then we got famous. Early in the Covid-19 …
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No free speech, thanks; we’re Millennials
Another day, another survey paints a worrying picture of the attitudes to freedom of expression in the home of the First Amendment. Commissioned by the Campaign for Free Speech, the …
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Don’t ban the sickle, hammer the wearers
Should red stars, hammers-and-sickles and other communist symbols be banned by retailers? Lithuania thinks so: Lithuania has urged American online retailer Amazon to stop selling clothing featuring the hammer and …
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Sometimes you’re just a dick
Nick Kyrgios is a dick. I don’t know Nick, so I apologise to him if I’m wronging him – not that he particularly cares what I think of him – …
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Philosophers agree: we need to deny access to “wrong” ideas
Last year, Bryan W. Van Norden, professor of philosophy at Wuhan University, Yale-NUS College and Vassar College (and the author of “Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto”) wrote an opinion piece …
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From Israel to Poland, the folaut continues
The Israel Folau case is big because Israel Folau is big – literally, but more importantly metaphorically speaking. Folau, however, is just a tip of an iceberg if that analogy …
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Polarisation takes us back to the 19th century
We seem to be on the cusp of another age of sharp tribalisation, where people of different beliefs and persuasions increasingly lead different lives and share different spaces, passing each …
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Less than half crazy
The numbers in the low 40s pops up in two stories today: Americans today are more closely divided than they were earlier in the last century when asked whether some …
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Tolerating your freedoms
One perhaps should not make too much out of remarks of one public official, no matter how senior – and yet, I have this nagging feeling that what he is …
Read More Never let a crisis go to waste
One of the consequences of the terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques will be an reinvigorated effort by the left to silence and censor speech and debate on topics they consider …
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20 Best Books I’ve Read in 2018
Happy New Year to The Daily Chrenk readers. If 2018 sucked for you, as it did for many people I know, keep marching on, onward and upward; if it was …
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Do you have your heresy app?
If you sometimes wonder what the Middle Ages would have been like if they magically acquired modern technology (here’s an alt-history concept for all you budding sci-fi writers), you can …
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Will America or Australia save Asia?
Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman whose death sentence for alleged blasphemy has been lifted by the Supreme Court, continues to be in danger, as the Pakistani Islamists are baying …
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Journal of Heresy and Damned Knowledge
That we have ever come – or, rather, come back – to this point again is the sad indictment of the intellectual climate throughout the Western academia: An international group …
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Pakistan vs Asia Bibi
A long running case reaches its final stage: A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy, a case that has polarised the nation. …
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Europe’s blasphemy, old and new
Europe is a big continent , with lots going on in different parts of it, but I’ll be quite interested to see how these two trends might get reconciled: Ireland’s …
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Social media giants aren’t even pretending anymore
Sure, they are private businesses and so they can do whatever they want with their users, but at least in the past they used to be less blatant and arbitrary about …
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