The hijab is the wrong symbol to represent women
Khadija Khan on why a hijab-clad statue in Birmingham is a faux pas, celebrating a symbol of oppression against women rather than their freedom and dignity.
‘When the chips are down, the philosophers turn out to have been bluffing’
Emma Park speaks to Alex Byrne, professor of philosophy at MIT and author of 'Trouble with Gender', about what a philosopher can bring to the trans debate, and why some philosophers have shrunk from 'questioning orthodoxy'.
Milton’s ‘Areopagitica’: liberty and licensing
'Disobedience may have been disastrous for Satan...but it was very much on the table for the freethinker in seventeenth-century England.'
In the fight against authoritarianism, the culture wars are a distraction
How Hongkongers are setting aside their differences to deal with the much bigger problem of Chinese state control.
The perils of dropping a book
On the Wakefield Koran-scuffing case, and why de facto blasphemy laws must continue to be resisted.
Free speech at universities: where do we go from here?
'What duties come with the right to freedom of speech, and whose freedom of speech should we be concerned with?'