Hate speech is free speech, Gov. Dean
By Glenn Reynolds • USAToday The former governor showed himself to be a constitutional illiterate on Twitter. I tell my constitutional law students that there are a couple of statements…
In New York, Big Brother Is Watching Your Free Speech
By David French • National Review When free speech threatens government power, government has a tendency to get curious about the identity and funding of dissenting speakers. This was true…
The Left Can’t Stop Campus Riots Like Middlebury’s Because Their Ideology Deserves Blame
By Peter W. Wood • The Federalist The Middlebury College protest on March 2 that silenced an invited speaker and hospitalized a popular professor has continued to garner attention. More…
The Rioters Are Winning
by David French • National Review I’m supposed to be encouraged, but I’m not. In the aftermath of this month’s violent attack on Charles Murray and a Middlebury professor, I’m…
Server Company Pulls The Plug On Conservative Website In The Name Of ‘Diversity’
By Dustin Siggins • The Federalist On Thanksgiving morning, while most people were prepping for football and eating far too much turkey, the website company Leadpages was shutting down an…
Truthy Researcher Launches New Fact-Checking Project
by Elizabeth Harrington • Washington Free Beacon The head researcher behind the government-funded project to track “misinformation” and “hate speech” online is now getting into the fact-checking business. Filippo Menczer,…
Safe Spaces Just Make The World More Dangerous
When we limit students’ ability to discuss controversial ideas, we allow harmful prejudices and thoughts to fester. Classrooms should offer more. By Jonathan Helwink • The Federalist In his seminal…
UVA Professors To UVA President: You Can’t Quote Thomas Jefferson
Faculty, students believe Jefferson shouldn’t be included in emails by Kate Bellows • Cavalier Daily Several professors on Grounds collaborated to write a letter to University President Teresa Sullivan against…
Tom Steyer Wants To Nullify The Bill Of Rights To Get Other People’s Money Out Of Politics
by Lachlan Markay • The Federalist Tom Steyer wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow the government to regulate religious sermons, tap the phones of the American Civil Liberties…
CNN’s Sally Kohn: I’m Happy Free Speech Is Under Assault on Campuses
by Tom Ciccotta • Breitbart At a free speech symposium at the University of Missouri, CNN commentator Sally Kohn argued that pro-free speech conservatives are really just afraid of the…
Is online free speech under attack?
By Rudy Takala • Washington Examiner Regulators in Washington are showing increasing interest in tightening rules on political speech on the web, arguing that the dissonant…
Safe From “Safe Spaces”
On the rare good sense of a college administrator. The New Criterion The Ohio state legislature ought to give the Ohio State University President Michael Drake some sort of medal…
University President Defies Trend, Defends Intellectual Diversity
In an open letter to faculty, George Mason University president resists descent into grievance culture. By Alice B Lloyd • Weekly Standard In the May 9th…
Dear attorneys general, conspiring against free speech is a crime
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds • USAToday Federal law makes it a felony “for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person…
The College That Wants to Ban ‘History’
by Robby Soave • The Daily Beast The history department might someday become the hxstory department, if the students in the Assembly for Power and Liberation…