New York University (NYU) School of Law reportedly reinstated a previously cancelled Federalist Society event focused on free speech, following criticism from right-leaning groups. The event, featuring Jewish constitutional scholar…
…or not the First Amendment protects such speech—and in most cases, the answer is “yes.” There are really only three types of unprotected speech: defamation, terroristic threats, and incitement to…
…of Charlie Kirk Is Reshaping Campus Speech Nationwide. It provides the first snapshot of student attitudes following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. One finding stands out: the assassination did not…
…in ten undergraduates believe speech itself can be violence, and if one in three believes real violence can be an acceptable answer to objectionable speech, then the conditions for future…
…spectrum driven by peer judgment, social-media backlash, and career concerns. External data confirms the pattern. In 2024, Harvard ranked 245th of 257 in FIRE’s Free Speech Rankings—its second straight year…
…and they have been chosen to serve this function. Part of Mamdani’s “third worldism” can be seen in his acceptance speech, in which he quotes the failed Indian socialist Nehru….
Editor’s Note: The following is the prepared text of a speech delivered by NAS Director of Research David Randall to the School Board Member Alliance of Virginia on November 14….
…that prized discourse over denunciation. The university also made a crucial definitional choice. It adopted the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism—a narrower, speech-protective standard—rather than the more expansive IHRA definition that…
…advocates often claim that it does. [RELATED: Faculty Face Widespread Punishment for Speech, Administrators and Unions Stay Silent] Natural Selection The struggle for academic truth resembles natural selection in biology….
…academic freedom by the government in the history of American higher education,” a massive “onslaught designed to micromanage all colleges, public and private, and to suppress speech using the threat…
…free speech champion Charlie Kirk, college students have increasingly seen free speech as an enemy of safety and security. The free speech group Freedom of Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)…
…federal Judge Kyle Duncan during an invited talk, while Dean Tirien Steinbach questioned whether the event was “worth the squeeze” rather than enforcing free-speech policies. At Columbia, a large number…
…the Big Bang.” The thermal map of the universe, first published in 1992 by George Smoot, won him the Nobel Prize in 2006. “[During] his reception speech, directed at his…
…I expected a solemn day of prayer, reflection, and conversation. Instead, more than a hundred people crowded the free speech area, the Stallions, yelling and screaming at our members and…
…through reasoned argument, discussions often devolve into emotional reactions rather than logical engagement. This reliance on emotion over reason also chills free speech. I have observed students privately voice opinions…
…their speech. These range from lost professional relationships (47 percent) and workplace shunning (40 percent) to seeking psychological counseling to cope with the fallout (27 percent) or even losing their…
The Trump administration’s new monitoring of social media for visa applicants and visa holders, in particular for international students, has generated vigorous debate over the free speech rights of non-Americans….
…commitment to rigorous and meritocratic selection based on objective and measurable criteria in the appointment process.” Section Four, “INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY,” demands that university employees “abstain from actions or speech relating…
…Worlds. (Yeah, that’s probably too many metaphors in one paragraph. Fear does that to me.) [RELATED: U of Oregon Violates Free Speech in Halloween Costume Punishment] When that happens—as it…
…time. Indeed, Mead’s 1912 speech predated the early genetic discoveries that would later discredit the movement and expose its moral and scientific failings. Additionally, this controversy didn’t arise from a…
…and within each of ourselves.” Conversation implies more than speech; it requires respect for the possibility that one might be wrong. Siraganian’s argument, for all its erudition, betrays a community…
…these efforts are a violation of academic freedom and freedom of speech. In her view, they threaten nothing less than professors’ freedom to tell their students “what the evidence says…
…assassinated at a college event in Utah while engaging in free speech. I was thinking about what a tragedy that was for his young children, who, being so young, will…
…free expression rights when they detained him because the actions were in response to—or retaliating for—the expression of his political views, ordinarily protected speech. They claim the free speech rights…
…The flyers further asserted that Damphousse “is eager to follow orders from a fascist government.” The pamphlets also read, “Free Speech, Free Gaza, Free Our School.” “The Firing of Dr….
…speech and violence. In the same way that Berkeley educators and students were told that their venomous persecution of Jewish teachers was a “valid perspective,” culture increasingly views certain speech,…
…years had unleashed the FBI on concerned parents who spoke against vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and woke indoctrination at school board meetings. The voluminous uptick in speech censorship on college…
…be weariness with the excesses of a fringe of the Democrats on wokeness. Yet, every time Kamala Harris began a speech by stating her “pronouns,” she lost 500,000 votes. National…
…suit with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, seeking to block the Trump administration from implementing this policy in an attempt to suppress speech (typically pro-Palestinian speech) that…
…to this URL.) I first read Atlas in 1963, when I was 22 years old. I read it straight through—except for that horrid Galt speech; I simply couldn’t put it…