Tag: Censorship
WTF? Slurs offend young adults more than swearing
Benjamin Bergen, University of California San Diego
In 1972, the comedian George Carlin performed a comedy routine in which he listed the seven words you...
Activists want a San Francisco high school mural removed, saying its...
Amna Khalid, Carleton College and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Carleton College
For nearly a century, a massive mural by painter Victor Arnautoff titled “The Life of...
Profit, not free speech, governs media companies’ decisions on controversy
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
For decades, U.S. media companies have limited the content they’ve offered based on what’s good for business. The decisions by...
Federal judge rules Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum
Clay Calvert, University of Florida
A federal judge in New York has ruled that President Donald Trump cannot block people from following or viewing his...
‘The 120 Days of Sodom’ – counterculture classic or porn war...
Will McMorran, Queen Mary University of London
Over the past year, politicians on the right have railed against the supposed tyranny of political correctness.
Perhaps...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
