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There was a time when the threat to academic freedom in democratic countries came primarily from the right. Today, however, most of the opposition to freedom of thought comes from the left.

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Keeping discussion free May 15,2021 - Last updated at May 15,2021 MELBOURNE — Last month, the Journal of Controversial Ideas — of which I am a co-editor — published its first issue. The journal is a response to the shrinking boundary, even in liberal democracies, of acceptable discourse. It is specifically designed to provide a forum in which authors can, if they wish, use a pseudonym to avoid running the risk of receiving personal abuse, including death threats, or of irrevocably harming their careers. There was a time when the threat to academic freedom in democratic countries came pr...

Finn McRedmond: Sock puppet twitter accounts part of a wider problem in public discourse Fear of cancel culture may be stifling free speech, but there’s no easy solution Thu, May 13, 2021, 01:00 Finn McRedmond Without dissenting voices we would not have moved on very far from believing the Earth was flat. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP   Eoghan Harris’s exit from the Sunday Independent has got us all thinking about the ethics of anonymity. But, amid conversations about whe...

There have been 259 attacks on scholars, students and universities, including 66 killings.