Photo by: Matt RourkeFILE – This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling…
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres and former President George W. Bush were spotted enjoying a Sunday afternoon together watching the NFL game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers in…
There was a time, in the recent past, when universities were in the grip of a kind of speech-code fever. Even as recently ten years ago, after a wave of…
YouTube on Monday banned three more independent commentators: James Allsup, “The Iconoclast,” and “Way of the World.” Their crime? Outspoken defense of Western Civilization, which apparently now is considered “hate…
By the Editors • National Review In the past two weeks, two different airports have blocked Chick-fil-A from the premises. First, the city council of San Antonio banned the chain…
By David Harsanyi • The Federalist In a recent op-ed, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg implored the state to get more involved in governing the internet. “Every day, we make decisions…
By Rich Lowry • National Review The same Democrats outraged by Donald Trump’s alleged offenses against the First Amendment passed, as their first priority, a speech-restricting bill opposed by the…
By Kyle Smith • National Review The First Amendment has never been stronger. Yet freedom of speech is under dire threat. Both of these things can be true, and both…
By Jeremy Carl • The Federalist Less than two weeks ago, President Trump signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement intended to be the successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which…
by Ben Domenech • The Federalist The firing of Kevin Williamson from The Atlantic on the day he was set to give an opening Q&A in their offices was sadly…
By Douglas Murray • National Review It’s much more comfortable for those in power to go after amorphous concepts than to address real-world issues. At the start of January this…
By Nicole Russell • The Federalist The Federalist society at the Lewis and Clark Law School invited Christina Hoff Sommers, scholar, author, and outspoken critic of feminism to speak Monday,…
By David French • National Review Online If you follow free-speech controversies for any length of time, you’ll understand two things about public opinion. First, an overwhelming percentage of Americans will…
By Theodore Kupfer • National Review Online George Ciccariello-Maher is suddenly worried about academic freedom. Before now, the concerns of the associate professor of politics at Drexel University trended mainly…
By Edwin Meese III • Wall Street Journal The headlines were both inflammatory and untrue: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions Criticized for Speaking to ‘Hate Group,’ ” reported NBC. Reports from…