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Special post: Stephen Rohde, ‘University Presidents Were Right to Condemn Hate Speech and Defend Free Speech’ — First Amendment News 403.1
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Special guest post by Stephen Rohde on the string of controversies regarding free speech and anti-Semitism on college campuses.
Bad moon rising? The Insurrection Act in times of a regime of revenge — First Amendment News 403
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One way to ominously expand his executive powers to attack his political enemies would be for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and apply it with a vengeance.
Author identity and the politics of suppression in today’s publishing world — First Amendment News 402
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Perilous times: The plight of local papers — First Amendment News 401
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There is a lot of talk these days about originalism and the need to preserve the past bequeathed to us by the Founders. Central to that vision as it relates to the First Amendment was local journalism.
Chemerinsky: ‘I am a 70-year-old Jewish man, but never in my life have I seen or felt the antisemitism of the last few weeks.’ — First Amendment News 400
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First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
What’s wrong with First Amendment casebooks? Where to begin? First Amendment News 399
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This article is part of First Amendment News, an editorially independent publication edited by Ronald K. L. Collins and hosted by FIRE as part of our mission to educate the public about First Amendment issues.
Where were Little Brown’s sensitivity readers? A few thoughts on the Wenner Rolling Stone controversy — First Amendment News 398
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What if Jann Wenner’s critics openly debated him at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame instead of booting him from the Hall’s board?
Was John Milton naïve? Is counterspeech a real remedy or a First Amendment fantasy? — First Amendment News 397
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We live by lies. They make life possible, pleasurable, and profitable. What would life be if shackled to truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
X-man, champion of free speech? How absurd! — First Amendment News 396
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Well, if you clicked on that link you just heard with your own ears Elon Musk’s commitment to free speech. Amazing! So libertarian, so principled — and, yes, so ironic!
Defending the right ‘to talk drool in favor of a proletarian dictatorship’ — First Amendment News 395
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Unlike so many of today’s pompous defenders of free speech who champion the First Amendment whenever it privileges their ideological team, Holmes pushed real risk to the borders of near destruction.