Mateen Tabatabaei | Reconciling free speech with uncomfortable opinions

It’s easy to stand for a principle like the right to free speech when the speech in question poses no threat to oneself.

Mateen Tabatabaei | What Amy Wax's critics get wrong

Wax’s general and anecdotal observations may be distasteful and impolitic, but equating them with a breach of privacy to further “her scholarly ends,” as Ruger puts it, seems dishonest.

Mateen Tabatabaei | What we can learn from problematic historical figures

How should we deal with great works by ethically dubious people or communities, even in the past?

Mateen Tabatabaei | Penn is not to blame for your pessimistic perspective

As for Penn, it’s a safe bet that none of us students knew exactly what we were signing up for. Still, as with any new path, we signed up for possibility.