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MORE THOUGHTS ON HATE SPEECH AND THE LAW
More from my interview with Peter Molnar on hate speech regulation, the whole of which will be published in the forthcoming book Regulating Hate Speech: Content, Context, and Remedies (Cambridge...
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THE MORAL DEMANDS OF FREE SPEECH
In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews there is a discussion of a book by Abigail Levin on The Cost of Free Speech that takes a different view to hate speech than I do: For the most part, liberals...
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WORDS AND DEEDS. AND THE SPACE BETWEEN
I have had a lot of responses to the extracts from my interview on hate speech and the law, many of which argue that speech that does not directly incite violence but creates a climate in which such...
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HOMER, AESCHYLUS AND MELANIE PHILLIPS
‘Vengeance is simply justice with bad pr’. So claimed melanie Phillips on The Moral Maze last night, in a programme that began as a discussion of the possibilities of penal redemption and ended as a...
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AGAINST THE BURQA BAN
As the French ban on the burqa comes into force today, here is part of an essay I wrote last year, when the French debate first kicked off, for the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Posten. THERE IS...
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THE OUTRAGE OF EQUAL TREATMENT BEFORE THE LAW
The sight of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man so rich that he wears $7000 dollar suits, a man so powerful that he could make or break countries with a single policy, being forced to sit in a New...
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FOR PRIVACY. AGAINST PRIVACY LAWS
In my previous posts on gossip and on l’affair dsk I made two main points with respect to privacy, injunctions and censorship. First, that privacy is a valued asset and a civilized society should know...
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STEM CELL RESEARCH IS MORAL. IT’S THE CRITICS WHO ARE MORALLY REPUGNANT
Court rulings on scientific patents are usually arcane and boring and of interest only to specialists. Not so this week. On Monday, the European Court of Justice made a landmark ruling banning any...
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OUTRAGE! OUTRAGE! OH, LET ME BE OUTRAGED!
I gave a talk on Wednesday night to the Studienbibliothek in Hamburg. Entitled ‘Left, Right and Islamism’ the talk explored the ways in which the responses of both left and right to Islamism have...
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ON HUMAN DIGNITY, EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS AND THE SHAME OF GREENPEACE
Last October I wrote an essay about the decision of the European Court of Justice to deny a patent to the German neuroscientist Oliver Brüstle who had developed a method for turning human embryonic...
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BEYOND THE VEIL
The question of the Muslim veil seems never to leave the headlines for long. If the debate is not about whether states, such as France or Belgium, should have the right to ban the face veil in public,...
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