America’s free-speech culture is in sudden flux and some peril. Since October 7, when Hamas launched an attack that included killing, raping, and kidnapping, the Israel-Palestine debate has been the ...

The Court’s hearing a case which asks if the internet has made the First Amendment obsolete.

I remember my great uncle on the farms of Illinois who loved to say, “When one person calls you a horse’s ass, don’t worry. When three people do, go out and buy a saddle.” As a president, you multiply ...

And how we get it back. Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January ...

Fifty-five percent of college students say they find it difficult to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on campus—more than double the 26 percent who said as much last year, before the start of ...

A Supreme Court decision saying a school district could not punish a student for profane complaints made on a weekend and off school grounds will not stem the torrent of crude, disrespectful speech in ...

When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That’s when a government directly blocks or suppresses speech. In the past, the federal government has censored ...

What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

Last week, the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT were called before Congress to address antisemitism on campus. During five hours of testimony, their studied hypocrisy triggered a bipartisan ...

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...

Thanks to the thousands who protested here in 1964, universities nationwide began to ensure students’ rights to free political speech. Inspired in part by the Civil Rights Movement, those protests ...