Democracies have the right to act in their own defense—even if that means some people temporarily have to go without tweeting.

As the governor plots to topple Sarasota’s New College, the students of the historic liberal arts institution prepare to rise in its defense.

Media coverage of campus speech controversies focuses almost solely on elite, coastal schools. But what about the rest of the country? A report from an array of higher education institutions nationwide

The high court’s conservatives could alter protections for LGBTQ citizens based on a case whose plaintiff describes an entirely hypothetical injury.

How election deniers, covid skeptics, and a Thomas Jefferson impersonator are disrupting the upstate New York retreat for the elites.

Some of the “classical liberals” who founded an ersatz college for “free speech” sure seem more at home in Viktor Orbán’s repressive regime.

Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.

Salman Rushdie has spent decades campaigning for free speech. The attempt on his life came amid a crack down on freedom of expression around the world.

The billionaire and self-declared “free speech absolutist” now owns 9.2 percent of the social network.

Should academic freedom really protect those who make false and morally repellent claims? It’s time for a rethink.

The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.

The high court will decide whether the First Amendment prevents elected bodies from disciplining their own members.

Can the ideals of free speech and social justice be reconciled?

Companies like Israel’s NSO Group have revolutionized how governments spy on their citizens. Can they be tamed?

“It’s about intimidation—and not of me,” says the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato

The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.

Michael Powell frames policing and racial justice as issues moving the ACLU away from its core mission around speech. It’s a false antagonism—and a trap.

The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.

Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.

The popular chat app is exploding in popularity in some Middle Eastern countries. Can it keep its users safe?