Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will outlast the fragility of politics.

If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night.

I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue.

Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.

In a speech at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Jonathan Kay shared insights from investigating a controversy at the university's teachers college. The story involves Margaret Munn, a middle-aged educator who faced backlash for questioning the concept of "decolonization" in a course titled "Indigenous Education: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy." Munn was reported to the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee and faced potential expulsion for her views. However, a UWO tribunal eventually ruled in her favor, citing violations of free speech. The editor’s investigation highlights the institutional pressures and the complex dynamics of academic environments focused on decolonization and social justice.

Louis Theroux’s new documentary suggests that he is unfamiliar with the complex history behind the Israeli occupation of The West Bank, and does not understand the political and ideological factors at stake there. By John Aziz.

How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.

What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?  

Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.

The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’

The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.

Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.

A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.

Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.

Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.

The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.

Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.

The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.

My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.

Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.