Who Gets to Speak Freely?
A new book takes the concerns of campus activists seriously.
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Higher Education Faces a Turning Point
The right's opportunistic obsession with left-wing bias at U.S. colleges and universities threatens to destroy one of the pillars of national unity.
The Netherlands’ Burgeoning Free Speech Problem
Are refugee activists getting punished for incendiary rhetoric more than right-wingers are?
The Invisible Free Speech Crisis
Why is there so much focus on no-platforming at elite universities, when hundreds of colleges across America regularly suppress speech?
The Decline of Debate on College Campuses
The real intellectual crisis in higher education is not over free speech, but the quality of speech.
How Donald Trump Poisons Free Speech
In the wake of Charlottesville, the ACLU shifted its longstanding position on the issue. In Trump’s America, that may have been inevitable.
How the Right Stifles Speech With Threats and Violence
The intimidation campaign against me after I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show is all too common. I kept my college teaching job, but other professors aren't so lucky.
Who Gets to Speak Freely?
Timothy Garton Ash's new book mounts an impassioned defense of free speech, but fails to reckon with its greatest flaw.
Reddit Will Always Be a Home for Hatred and Harassment
Ellen Pao’s firing and the paradox of the commons
The Hostile Renegotiation of the Professor-Student Relationship
College classrooms will never be the same again—and that's not necessarily a bad thing
The Aesthetic Failure of 'Charlie Hebdo'
The French satirical magazine refuses to evolve, using a stale artistic strategy from the 1960s
Pamela Geller Is Not "Morally Responsible" for the Terrorist Attack in Texas
The defense of free expression should become stronger in the face of violent threats, not weaker
The Supreme Court Gives a Subtle Boost to Free Speech
A Secret Service ruling isn't the setback it may seem
Indian Intellectuals are Being Bullied by Right-Wing Extremists
A Hindu group sues, a publisher caves, and a nation becomes less free
