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• Originally published 01/05/2018

  Free Speech on Campus: Interviews with Carla Hesse and Jonathan Scott Holloway

  Is free speech endangered on college campuses today? 

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• Originally published 11/14/2017

  Cheerleaders taking a knee aren’t dishonoring the flag

  David B. Parker

  Why the president of Kennesaw State University might want to reconsider his criticism.

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• Originally published 10/30/2017

  The Intellectual Arrogance of Suppressing Campus Speech

  Richard L. Cravatts

  “Don’t tell me about facts. I don’t need no facts.”

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• Originally published 10/02/2017

  Flip-Flopping on Free Speech

  Jill Lepore

  The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.

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• Originally published 08/07/2017

  Why Campus Free Speech Laws Won’t Free Campus Speech

  Adam Laats

  That’s the lesson of the anti-evolution campaigns of the 1920s.

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• Originally published 06/26/2017

  Free speech to be front and center at Gettysburg battle anniversary

  One group set up a Facebook page: "Support America and Her History, Rally! If You Hate US, Leave!"

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• Originally published 06/14/2017

  Free Speech Loses Ground as Harvard Retracts Offers to Admitted Students

  Jonathan Zimmerman

  By rejecting the offending students, the university reinforced the idea that students shouldn’t offend one another.

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• Originally published 05/29/2017

  Drew Gilpin Faust discusses free speech in Harvard commencement address (video)

  Why is free speech important at universities?  Why is it under attack now?  How can we nurture it? 

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• Originally published 05/01/2017

  Free Speech Is Not Dying in Berkeley

  Andrea S. Johnson

  It simply never existed in the form we imagined.

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• Originally published 04/26/2017

  Berkeley HAS Violated Ann Coulter’s Free Speech Rights

  Richard L. Cravatts

  What Berkeley has done is emblematic of a serious problem.

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• Originally published 04/26/2017

  Berkeley Has NOT Violated Ann Coulter’s Free Speech Rights

  Robert Cohen  

  Her claims are specious.

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• Originally published 03/03/2017

  Free Expression on Campus: What the Authors of 4 Books Are Saying About This Hot Controversy

  Luther Spoehr

  How freedom of speech becomes freedom from speech.

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• Originally published 02/08/2017

  Donald Trump’s Appalling Hypocrisy about Free Speech

  Robert Cohen  

  He’s no Mario Savio.

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• Originally published 09/30/2016

  Courage and free speech

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Throughout human history there have been individuals who have been ready to risk everything for their beliefs.

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• Originally published 09/20/2016

  Berkeley Reinstates ‘Zionism-is-Colonialism’ Course After Free Speech Outcry

  The University of California Berkeley has reinstated a student-led course called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” after public outcry over its suspension last week.

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• Originally published 01/13/2016

  Review of Donna T. Haverty-Stacke’s “Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since The Age of FDR”

  Murray Polner

  A fascinating look at the group of intellectuals who pledged allegiance to Trotsky and the federal government's campaign to disrupt their party.

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• Originally published 12/04/2015

  The Sad Demise of the Commitment to Free Speech at America’s Universities

  James C. Cobb

  What the students at Yale, Amherst and other places could learn from C. Vann Woodward.

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• Originally published 07/06/2015

  Review of Kirsten Powers, "The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech"

  Luther Spoehr

  Fox News’s liberal-in-residence argues that the suppression of ideas in contemporary American politics, journalism, and higher education is a major problem.

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• Originally published 03/19/2015

  The Long History of Hate Speech

  M. Alison Kibler

  The terms have changed, from racial ridicule to group libel and then hate speech, but the regulation of hate speech stands out as twentieth century tradition, not a new culture war.

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• Originally published 12/03/2014

  Every 30 or 40 Years We See Flagrant Attacks on Free Speech. Here We Go Again.

  Lawrence Davidson

  This time it’s attacks on the critics of Israel.

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• Originally published 07/02/2014

  Free speech: another weapon in the war against abortion in the US

  Ruth Rosen

  In a dramatic turn of events last week, the US Supreme Court overturned a 2007 law that separated and protected women who sought abortions and health care from the zealots who intimated and threatened them.

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• Originally published 05/07/2014

  For Justices, Free Speech Often Means ‘Speech I Agree With’

  “While liberal justices are over all more supportive of free speech claims than conservative justices, the votes of both liberal and conservative justices tend to reflect their preferences toward the ideological groupings of the speaker.”

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• Originally published 05/11/2013

  Marc Lendler: "Every Idea is an Incitement..."

  Aaron Leonard

  Image via Shutterstock.

• Originally published 12/12/2005

  The Worst President Ever on Civil Liberties?

  Samuel Walker

  In an informal poll last year, professional historians rated George W. Bush the worst president ever in American history. It is a bit early to begin rating a president who still has two more years to serve, and time and events could change that judgement. On civil liberties issues, Bush clearly has the worst record of any president. He has led an all-out assault on the separation of church and state, abortion rights and gay and lesbian ri

• Originally published 04/11/2005

  Who's Undermining Freedom of Speech on Campus Now

  David Beito, Robert "KC" Johnson, and Ralph E. Luker

  Freedom of speech is crucial both to a healthy democracy and the life of the mind. The 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits Congress from any act that would abridge it and the charters of most of our colleges and universities recognize that freedom of thought and speech are essential to a healthy academic community. Yet, freedom of speech has been a contested value since the birth of the Republic, most commonly in periods of war, from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 thro