Freedom with Chinese Characteristics?

Journal of Free Speech Law: "A Cure Worse than the Disease: Why the EU's Proposal to Criminalize Hate Speech Violates Freedom of Expression—and Won't Reduce Intolerance or Extremism," by Jacob Mchangama & Natalie Alkiviadou

“The smartphone erodes freedom not because it invades our private space, but because it gives us the feel of a private world”

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Open Thread

Loitering towards war

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Diana Grass: Listening to the body’s language

How AI Is Rewriting Human Nature

Illinois Will Finally Stop Stripping People of Their Home Equity—3 Years After the Supreme Court Outlawed It

The Mother of All Economic Shocks Is Chinese Mercantilism

Open Thread

Open Thread

Five graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more dangerous

“I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” 

PEN America was founded in 1922 to protect free speech and defend writers. That creed has developed a blind spot

Today in Supreme Court History: July 11, 1921

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission and the dismantling of the Constitution

He Who "Would Be a Great Lawyer" "Must First Consent to Become a Great Drudge"

Tiny infrared chip could improve detection of gases and heat