Condemning Disavowal
"I disavow" has become almost a joke these days. In internet circles -- and YouTube in particular -- sometimes the "I" is dropped and the speaker simply says "disavow," after…
The Deplatforming Takes Heartiste
It seems that WordPress has taken down Chateau Heartiste. I don't know what part of the Terms of Service Heartiste supposedly violated. It seems as though the pretense of objectivity…
Free Speech and Violence: A Paradox
At the suggestion of a friend, I have been reading over a little bit of Brandenburg v. Ohio, the 1969 legal case which most definitively decided that one's right to…
On Vox Day and Free Speech
Vox Day has been arguing against Free Speech for a few months now, and laid out what he believes to be a knock-down argument against it tonight in one of…
Amazon Book-Banning
I once got into an argument with another student at college about the effect of free speech on minorities. Her position was that without some sort of protection, a majority…
A Four-Minute Vision of the Future
If you haven't followed the story of Dankula, this neatly sums up what happened: This is where all the virtue-signaling, the centralized control, the philosophically-ignorant moralizing, and the fetishization of…
They Really Are That Bad
I had a conversation with an HVAC technician about our university system last week. This guy -- we'll call him Steve -- was happy to criticize and insult the state…
Free Speech Needs Nationalism
I was reading a book written by my great-great grandfather a few days ago. It described (among other things) the account of his journey from Scotland to India in the…