by Gene Policinski When it comes to your core freedoms, which would you rather wield to protect them: a sword or a shield? The 45 words of the First Amendment […]
Tag: free speech
Comedy clubs as free speech zones — and the antidote to cancel culture
by Ronald Collins and Ronnie Marmo On Nov. 24, 1964, the Illinois Supreme Court did what no other state high court had ever done — it vindicated Lenny Bruce’s free […]
Free speech needs muscle
Officials at Stanford University could learn something from the New York City Police Department about defending free speech while maintaining order. When hecklers prevented an invited speaker from addressing an […]
How I became a tool of China’s giant anti-American propaganda machine
by Nicholas Goldberg When I write critical columns about U.S. policies and politics, I occasionally strike a nerve and get enraged letters from readers denouncing me as a traitor or […]
Academic drama and ‘Islamophobia’
by Gene Lyons Chances are, your humble, obedient servant here will never be invited to teach at Hamline University, a Methodist school in St. Paul, Minn. For one thing, I’m […]
Don’t cancel Amy Coney Barrett’s book
by Stephen L. Carter Kudos to Penguin Random House for sticking to its plan to publish a book by Justice Amy Coney Barrett despite a petition from hundreds of people […]
Chief Twit Musk makes disastrous start
by Parmy Olson Elon Musk has wasted no time in showing the world that Twitter Inc.’s new sheriff is in town — or rather its “chief twit” is. That was […]
Guest essay: WVU’s proposed rule change may have chilling effect on faculty’s, staff’s service to community
by John A. Bolt West Virginia University would make a serious mistake by adopting a proposed rule change that could chill a mainstay of the benefits of having a land-grant, […]
Rushdie and the defense of ‘hate speech’
by Jonathan Zimmerman “Professor, why should we allow hate speech?” Over the past few years, that’s become the most common question that students ask me in class. My reply is […]
We can’t let gov’t tell us to ‘shut up, or else’
by Gene Policinski There may be no worse assault on our freedom of speech than a law that would permit the government to tell us to “shut up” when it […]
