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| Tuesday 21 May 2013 |
No sex talk, please,
we're students
The latest diktat from the Obama administration bizarrely treats students' sexual come-ons and flirting as sexual harassment.
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| Tuesday 23 April 2013 |
A city shut down, liberty surrendered
Wendy Kaminer reports from locked-down Boston, where Obama’s promise that ‘a bomb can’t beat us’ rang hollow.
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| Wednesday 30 January 2013 |
Obama: selling out civil liberties
Obama’s inaugural address confirmed that the left and right agree on one thing: freedom can be curbed in the name of some greater good.
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| Wednesday 9 January 2013 |
Gun laws shouldn’t be written by ghosts
Second Amendment rights are important, but the idea that they should never change, even in the light of new facts, is just irrational.
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| Tuesday 11 December 2012 |
Why we must tolerate hate
To punish racist vandals more harshly than run-of-the-mill vandals is to veer dangerously close towards instituting thoughtcrime.
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| Wednesday 14 November 2012 |
No country for old white Republicans
As the presidential election showed, the Republican Party is at odds with the permissive mainstream of America.
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| Tuesday 6 November 2012 |
The political storm over climate change
The fallout from Hurricane Sandy confirms how hard it is to have a rational debate about climatic issues.
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| Thursday 11 October 2012 |
What about our right to be offensive?
Claims by an American newscaster that she had been ‘bullied’ about her weight take hypersensitivity to new heights.
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| Monday 1 October 2012 |
Sacrificing free speech to the heckler’s veto
The defacement of anti-Muslim ads on the New York subway was not an act of free speech - it was an act of censorship of offensive views.
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| Thursday 20 September 2012 |
The president who would divide and rule
Romney’s attack on ‘the 47 per cent who pay no income tax’ conveyed his contempt for ordinary Americans.
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| Monday 10 September 2012 |
US politics: a punch-up between mythmakers
Partisanship is the lifeblood of politics, but in America we now have hyperpartisanship, where blind groupthink is trumping tough debate.
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| Monday 25 June 2012 |
How NYC is colonising
CUNY students’ minds
Recent events at City University of New York show that diversity policies treat students like children and assault academic freedom.
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| Thursday 17 May 2012 |
‘I've never seen people smiling so broadly’
US civil libertarian Wendy Kaminer says progressives should welcome the rise of gay marriage.
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| Wednesday 18 April 2012 |
The right to be
wildly unpopular
US civil libertarian Wendy Kaminer answers your questions on Obama, the Tea Party, Leveson and loads more.
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| Wednesday 11 April 2012 |
In America, atheists are still in the closet
No, non-believers don’t face legal discrimination, but their rhetoric about ‘coming out’ is not mere melodrama.
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| Thursday 16 February 2012 |
No, Barack Obama is not Torquemada
Religious people’s rights to follow their conscience must not impinge on women’s rights to access contraceptives.
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| Wednesday 11 January 2012 |
Wanted: a president who believes in liberty
Aside from kooky Ron Paul, all the Republican candidates, as well as President Obama himself, have a very un-American attitude to freedom.
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| Thursday 1 December 2011 |
The hypocrisy of Occupy Wall Street
By asserting a First Amendment ‘right to occupy’, the occupiers seem to want one rule for themselves and another for everyone else.
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| Monday 14 November 2011 |
We can’t be free without the right to be offensive
In Washington DC, anti-bullying campaigners want to restrict ‘offensive speech’ in public. That would be a disaster for liberty and progress.
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
The disenfranchised majority kicks back
Occupy Wall Street may be incoherent, but it’s a long overdue reaction to an out-of-touch political class.
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