Well, I have to say, as someone who's not politically aligned with the sort of people who tend to be the loudest defenders of "controversial" ideas and the loudest opponents of deplatforming (because they somehow always come up with reasons that <i>my</i> controversial ideas don't count), that I am cautiously optimistic about what's being published here.<p>I was going to make some snarky comment about whether the "controversial" ideas here include the moral necessity of the proletariat revolution, the need to abolish and prosecute the police, a defense of open borders, etc. But in fact the articles in issue 1 (<a href="https://www.journalofcontroversialideas.org/volumes_issues/1/1" rel="nofollow">https://www.journalofcontroversialideas.org/volumes_issues/1...</a> - click "Read more" -> "Full article" -> "View Full-text" on any of the articles to see them) include<p>- a defense of violent action to protect animals, as done by various animal-rights activists<p>- a rebuttal of a paper claiming that "women" are "adult human females" (by which I assume is meant "cis females"), which replies that the paper gives no reason to dispute that trans women are women<p>- a dive into the merits of blackface-ish traditions, which ends up concluding that the Dutch "Black Pete" character is not actually defensible (though others are)<p>- an argument in favor of "global enlightened despotism" to save the world from climate change<p>It isn't literally a call to guillotine every billionaire, but it's a whole lot closer than I expected it to be. Yes, there are also papers in here arguing that left-wing opponents of scientific racism are no better than young-earth creationists, that you shouldn't deplatform Steve Bannon, etc. But I came in expecting it to be <i>only</i> that and it isn't.<p>(I do agree with another commenter's point that, essentially, most of the ideas here - especially the counter-rebuttal by the original author of the "Are women adult human females" paper - are firmly within the Overton window of discourse, and so this journal is not strongly succeeding at widening the window.)