As we all know, free speech is not an abstract debate. In 2021, Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at Sussex, was forced out of her position after extended harassment by students and sustained criticism from academics elsewhere, due to her gender-critical views. Following an angry student protest, police had advised her not to attend campus.…
Understanding liberal regimes of tolerance[1] Recent heated debates over the meaning of ‘tolerance’ and ‘discrimination’, arising in relation to Christian Unions, Catholic Adoption agencies and so on, are badly clouded by misconceptions of what the two terms imply. The debate is not fundamentally about ‘tolerance versus discrimination’ but about which ‘regime of tolerance’ each side…