I don’t get it. More and more, I hear it earnestly contended that separation of church and state is not really in the Constitution. Forgive me, but that phrase describes very well what the ...

IT is scarcely more than a platitude to say that we are living in an age of transformation of thought. It is not, perhaps, quite so much a platitude to say that we are apt to assume that certain ...

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle There is a dichotomy of thought present when tolerance is the subject. Thomas Mann asserted that ...

Just published as part of the "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech" symposium; here's the start of the Introduction and the Conclusion (the article is here): The political cultures of some ...

English is a very curious language. Case in point: the word “tolerance.” Over the years I’ve had several friends that were involved in the manufacture of industrial machine parts. Regardless of the ...

An idiot is an idiot. It is a purely scientific description. You see them, you watch them move through the world, you hear them talk, and somewhere inside you, an instinctive voice screams out: “Watch ...

In recent years, social and conventional media platforms have grappled with the free-speech dilemma. Should social media platforms be responsible for regulating speech that promotes hatred, violence ...