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August 5, 2019
Roger Sollenberger
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.
March 13, 2019
Sarah Souli
The Netherlands’ Burgeoning Free Speech Problem
Are refugee activists getting punished for incendiary rhetoric more than right-wingers are?
April 10, 2018
Sarah Jones
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?
December 28, 2017
Aaron R. Hanlon
The Decline of Debate on College Campuses
The real intellectual crisis in higher education is not over free speech, but the quality of speech.
August 23, 2017
Sarah Jones
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.
June 27, 2017
Aaron R. Hanlon
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.
June 2, 2017
Sarah Jones
Where is the outrage for Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor?
May 31, 2016
Malcolm Harris
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.
September 11, 2015
Vlad Chituc
GamerGate: A Culture War for People Who Don't Play Video Games
July 16, 2015
Navneet Alang
Reddit Will Always Be a Home for Hatred and Harassment
Ellen Pao’s firing and the paradox of the commons
June 5, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Hostile Renegotiation of the Professor-Student Relationship
College classrooms will never be the same again—and that's not necessarily a bad thing
May 8, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Aesthetic Failure of 'Charlie Hebdo'
The French satirical magazine refuses to evolve, using a stale artistic strategy from the 1960s
May 7, 2015
Steven Lubet
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
May 6, 2015
Jeet Heer
How Did Everybody Suddenly Become an Expert on French Visual Satire?
May 4, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Anti-Islam Exhibit Attacked in Texas Is a Clearer Free Speech Case Than 'Charlie Hebdo'
March 23, 2015
Cristian Farias
Was Texas Wrong to Reject a Specialty License Plate Bearing a Confederate Flag?
March 11, 2015
Cristian Farias
The Two Oklahoma Students Expelled for Their Racist Chant Have a Strong Free-Speech Defense
November 10, 2014
Zach Campbell
Spain Is Sending This Basque Activist to Jail for Writing an Op-Ed
May 28, 2014
Margo Schlanger
The Supreme Court Gives a Subtle Boost to Free Speech
A Secret Service ruling isn't the setback it may seem
February 19, 2014
Nilanjana Roy
Indian Intellectuals are Being Bullied by Right-Wing Extremists
A Hindu group sues, a publisher caves, and a nation becomes less free
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