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Europe Suppresses Speech for Muslim 'Feelings' Nov. 02, 2018
In the age of Trump, the American media insist that freedom of speech is in danger because they some... Read More
When We Broaden the Definition of Incitement, Freedom Suffers Oct. 31, 2018
Over the past week, we've heard the media pitching one particular narrative nonstop: the story that ... Read More
Shut Up, They Explain Oct. 17, 2018
Gloria Alvarez, the young woman from Guatemala I wrote about last week, just got blocked by Facebook... Read More
Social Networks Shutting Out Conservatives Sep. 07, 2018
Testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill this week, executives from... Read More
'Colleges Defend Free Speech' Should Not Be a Headline Aug. 28, 2018
As the academic year starts, we can expect to hear new tales of censorship at colleges and persecuti... Read More
Lay off Boris Johnson -- and Us, for That Matter Aug. 16, 2018
WASHINGTON — A fellow Spectatorian is under enemy fire, and we all must rally around him, part... Read More
Social Media Giants Shouldn't Be Arbiters of Appropriate Speech Aug. 10, 2018
Of course, Facebook, YouTube and other media are free to ban conspiracy-mongers such as Alex Jones f... Read More
Free Speech for the Goose Jul. 04, 2018
The New York Times, borrowing Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's language from her dissent in last ... Read More
Shut Up, They Explain Jun. 27, 2018
I'm not surprised that mobs shriek at Trump administration officials in restaurants and that Maxine ... Read More
Do Christians Have a Future in LGBTQ America? Jun. 20, 2018
In 2014, high-tech executive and CEO of Mozilla Brendan Eich was forced to resign from the company h... Read More
Free Speech in the Time of Rant and Rage Apr. 13, 2018
Polarities are the spice in a dish of politics in search of a recipe. Sometimes the dish becomes a f... Read More
Boycott Ingraham's Advertisers? What About All of Fox News? Apr. 03, 2018
For Laura Ingraham, the decline came well before the fall. The Parkland teens' success in pressuring... Read More
Women Against Free Speech? Mar. 23, 2018
Sometimes, for those of us who are constantly reading statistics and poll results, something that yo... Read More
Who's Controlling What You Read? Mar. 09, 2018
As a consumer, if you abhor censorship and want to protect free speech — a basic human right i... Read More
What's Oozing out of Campuses Is Polluting Society Feb. 16, 2018
In a 1989 article in New Republic, Andrew Sullivan made what he called "a (conservative) case for ga... Read More
Dirty College Secrets Jan. 10, 2018
A frequent point I have made in past columns has been about the educational travesty happening on ma... Read More
A New Front in the War on Free Speech Oct. 17, 2017
Hothouse flowers threw another hissy fit on a college campus recently. But this time it was differen... Read More
Is Taking a Knee Protected Speech? Oct. 12, 2017
"The constitutionally guaranteed 'freedom to be intellectually ... diverse or even contrary,' and th... Read More
Not a Day Care Sep. 27, 2017
Our college-age population consists mostly of 18- to 30-year-olds, and likewise our armed forces. I ... Read More
The End of the First Amendment Sep. 20, 2017
Last week, I visited the University of California, Berkeley. The preparations for the visit were pat... Read More
