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Intolerance and illiberal thought are on the march in almost every major American institution — in politics, higher education, and NGOs; publishing, corporate governance, and even the law. But a diverse society cannot endure or prosper without an open public square where ideas and arguments can be freely debated without fear of retribution or anathematization. Free speech is a constitutional right in the United States, but it’s just one component of the broader and more diffuse liberal values of pluralism and tolerance. No brief or ruling can alone tell us when stigmatization and deplatforming cross the line into discrimination and censorship. These are values we have to define and defend ourselves. This platform aims to do its part, providing original commentary and aggregating the best work being done on the illiberal impulses that threaten freedom and social cohesion. Source
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Search ArticlesE-Pluribus | April 20, 2023
A round-up of the latest and best writing and musings on the rise of illiberalism in the public discourse: After years of unimpeded progress, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at colleges and universities are finally facing pushback. Even in places where legislation hasn’t mandated it, Kate Marijolovic at the Chronicle of Higher Educationreports that anti-DEI efforts are having an impact. Read it all.
E-Pluribus | April 19, 2023
A round-up of the latest and best writing and musings on the rise of illiberalism in the public discourse: Philosophical issues are often by their very nature challenging, confrontational to conventional beliefs, and even at times disturbing. At Quillette, professor Alex Byrne tells of how a relatively prosaic observation, a woman is an adult human female, recently set philosophy’s collective hair on fire. Read it all.
E-Pluribus | April 18, 2023
A round-up of the latest and best writing and musings on the rise of illiberalism in the public discourse: There’s plenty of bad news for free speech on college campuses, but it’s not all bad. Writing for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal in North Carolina, George Leef finds at least one reason for optimism in a new book by University of Pennsylvania professor Sigal Ben-Porath. Read it all here.
E-Pluribus | April 17, 2023
A round-up of the latest and best writing and musings on the rise of illiberalism in the public discourse: CIE may not be as recognizable as DEI, but Tal Fortgang at National Reviewwrites that policies meant to foment diversity, equity, and inclusion and more likely to generate just the opposite. Fortgang cites the behaviour of both students and Stanford’s DEI administrator to support his thesis. Read the whole thing.
E-Pluribus | April 14, 2023
A round-up of the latest and best writing and musings on the rise of illiberalism in the public discourse: The Founders had a healthy fear of the potential power of the federal government. (For example, see the latest at Pluribus on the never-ending national “emergencies”). At Tablet Magazine, Jenin Younes reports on a court case in Missouri that aims to expose how far the government was willing to go during the pandemic to suppress information that ran counter to the official line.
E-Pluribus | April 13, 2023
A round-up of the latest and best writing and musings on the rise of illiberalism in the public discourse: With diversity, equity, and inclusion, we are told, education just can’t work and simply perpetuates a historically discriminatory system. If that’s so, Scott Yenor at City Journalasks, then why are HBCU’s [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] functionally exempt? Read it all. The Left professes an abhorrence of authoritarianism and the suppression of democracy.
National Emergencies: Necessary Evils or Creeping Authoritarianism?
In January, four months after President Biden let slip in an interview that “the pandemic is over,” the White House denounced two pieces of congressional legislation declaring an end to the pandemic, calling them “a grave disservice to the American people” that could cause hospitals and nursing homes to be “plunged into chaos” and result in “thousands of migrants per day” entering the country as Title 42 provisions ended.
E-Pluribus | April 12, 2023
A round-up of the latest and best writing and musings on the rise of illiberalism in the public discourse: Share One of the paradoxes of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology is that to overcome sex and race discrimination, we must actively and deliberately discriminate on the basis of sex and race. Heather Mac Donald at City Journal addresses the damage this does to the ideal that one’s identity should not determine the value of one’s accomplishments. Read it all here.
E-Pluribus | April 11, 2023
A round-up of the latest and best writing and musings on the rise of illiberalism in the public discourse: Sometimes the only defense of indefensible speech is that it shouldn’t be illegal. At Reason, Damon Root examines a case before the Supreme Court that tests the limits of the First Amendment when it comes to threats, specifically, in this case, online threats. Read it all here. Making up for America’s past wrongs is built in to the modern day movement for equity and inclusion.
E-Pluribus | April 10, 2023
A round-up of the latest and best writing and musings on the rise of illiberalism in the public discourse: If we teach children not to tattle, should we begin encouraging college students to do it? In the Wall Street Journal, Iván Marinovic and John Ellis write that Bias Reporting Systems on some campuses are doing just that. Read it all. Many countries strive to increase their global influence, but those with totalitarian systems seeking to spread their ideology are clearly of greatest concern.