On race, fatherhood, and the many uses of memoir

His new platform aims “to defend free speech and free inquiry against all its enemies.” But is it really just obsessed with cancel culture?

The industry is facing demands to live up to its stated values. That might mean ditching writers like Donald Trump Jr.

A new book takes the concerns of campus activists seriously.

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.

Are refugee activists getting punished for incendiary rhetoric more than right-wingers are?

Why is there so much focus on no-platforming at elite universities, when hundreds of colleges across America regularly suppress speech?

The real intellectual crisis in higher education is not over free speech, but the quality of speech.

In the wake of Charlottesville, the ACLU shifted its longstanding position on the issue. In Trump’s America, that may have been inevitable.

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.

Timothy Garton Ash's new book mounts an impassioned defense of free speech, but fails to reckon with its greatest flaw.

Ellen Pao’s firing and the paradox of the commons

College classrooms will never be the same again—and that's not necessarily a bad thing

The French satirical magazine refuses to evolve, using a stale artistic strategy from the 1960s

The defense of free expression should become stronger in the face of violent threats, not weaker