Robert Shibley

Fellows Team
A native of Toledo, Ohio, and a graduate of Duke University and Duke University School of Law, Robert is the author of Twisting Title IX, from Encounter Books. During his 19-year career at FIRE, Robert has aided students and faculty members at hundreds of colleges and universities and personally traveled to dozens of campuses to educate students, faculty, and administrators about First Amendment issues. A free-speech activist who himself faced campus censorship, Robert’s writing has appeared in many national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, and TIME. He has also represented FIRE on NPR, The O’Reilly Factor, CNN Tonight, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Stossel, Fox & Friends, and CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, as well as many other national and international television and radio programs.
Recent Writings
- The ‘Twitter Files’ have opened the company's censorship decisions to public scrutiny,
- American Council on Education and 38 other higher ed groups in Supreme Court affirmative action case: On second thought, the chilling effect on speech is a real thing and it’s bad!,
- Cancel culture empowers the powerful — at everyone else’s expense,
- [UPDATED] University of Michigan professor no longer teaching composition seminar after students complain about blackface in 1965 Othello film,
- Remembering September 11, 2001 - 20 Years On,
- After Twitter complaint about Illinois State quiz question goes viral, online exam platform Pearson makes troubling commitment to police eLearning platforms,
- Half a cheer for Georgetown as school silently declines (probably) to investigate professor for quoting epithet in landmark Supreme Court case,
- University of Oklahoma defends diversity training requiring agreement with university-approved viewpoints but signals willingness to reconsider,
- One Georgetown Law professor fired, one resigns after conversation about black students’ academic performance accidentally recorded,
- Notre Dame degrades already scant student disciplinary protections in the name of COVID-19,
- Western Carolina University and the new ‘script’ for appeasing the mob, Act II,
- Western Carolina University and the new 'script' for appeasing the mob, Act 1,
- In Memoriam: Professor Mike Adams, 1964-2020,
- New Department of Education First Amendment grant regulations have real promise, but require caution,
- Looking back at 2019 with FIRE’s executive director,
- Why the Supreme Court’s Davis standard is necessary to restore free speech to America’s college campuses: Part II,
- Supreme Court denies cert in Buchanan v. Alexander,
- Why the Supreme Court’s Davis standard is necessary to restore free speech to America’s college campuses: Part I,
- With Homeland Security chief’s aborted speech, Georgetown Law submits to heckler’s veto,
- The Wall Street Journal: 'Bias teams welcome the Class of 1984',
- “When Harvard stumbles”,
- The college gun photo police are at it again,
- Harvard law prof who agreed to represent Harvey Weinstein ousted as faculty dean,
- Middlebury student government issues extremely worrying 'proposals for community healing',
- Newsflash: The First Amendment does not give you the right to spray chemicals at people,
- President Trump: ‘Listen to the other point of view’,
- Higher ed groups’ response to executive order: Deny, minimize campus speech problems,
- ‘Sokal Squared’ hoax paper prof facing discipline for not having research reviewed by institutional review board,
- Blacklist challenged in court as students “Stand Up to Harvard”,
- UCLA diversity requirement threatens academic freedom, trust in academia,
- Movement for academic boycott of Israel continues to raise thorny problems, produce bad consequences,
- Preliminary Education Department rules on campus sexual misconduct include important due process protections, according to report,
- Is there a free speech “crisis” on campus?,
- Best of Newsdesk: The First Amendment is for all Americans, regardless of their politics,
- The First Amendment is for all Americans, regardless of their politics,
- James Madison University reportedly orders alleged sexual assault victim not to go public,
- Title IX complaint filed after 8 years raises questions about due process at Stanford,
- White House forum discusses free speech on campus,
- How the civil rights movement brought us free speech on campus,
- The bell tolls for Harvard President Drew Faust — not the Liberty Bell!,
- Murray at Middlebury: the cost of disrupting ‘provocative’ speech,
- Report: Candice Jackson appointed acting head of Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights,
- Former Stanford provost on ‘the threat from within’ to intellectual tolerance,
- Goldwater Institute Releases Model Campus Free Speech Legislation for States,
- Martin Luther King, Free Speech, and the Albany Movement,
- Faculty, Students Take on Harvard Admins over Final Club/Greek Org Blacklist,
- U. of Tennessee Ends Glenn Reynolds Investigation, Cites First Amendment,
- U. of Tennessee “Investigating” Professor for Tweet,
- New Video of Last Year’s Yale Halloween Costume Confrontation Emerges,
- Harvard to Student Club: Lie About Your Policies and You’ll Be OK,
- For the Fourth: Ben Franklin on Freedom of Speech—50 Years Before the Constitution,
- Special Treatment? Harvard Exempts ‘The Harvard Crimson’ from Single-Gender Club Policy,
- FIRE Testifies Before Georgia House of Representatives on Campus Due Process (VIDEO),
- Free Speech: Not Just a ‘Diversion’ from Campus Protests,
- The Censors Must Not Win: Campus Thought Police Have Run Amok — but All Is Not Lost,
- ‘The Atlantic’ on the Yale Halloween Email and Free Speech Controversy,
- Heckler’s Veto Hits Minnesota Law School,
- Nationwide Survey Shows Overwhelming Support for FIRE’s Position on Due Process, Right to Counsel,
- Michigan State Settlement Shows OCR’s Continuing Confusion about Due Process,
- Martin Luther King: Free Speech Is a Human Right,
- What Might a Police Investigation of the UVA Rape Charges Have Looked Like?,
- Has Title IX Failed in Dealing with Campus Sexual Assault?,
- What Ezra Klein Gets Wrong about the ‘Yes Means Yes’ Law in California,
- Free Speech, UC Davis, and the Anti-Defamation League,
- A Victim of Vanderbilt’s So-Called ‘All-Comers’ Policy Speaks Out,
- U. of Illinois Totally Blows It on Salaita Defense,
- Did U. of Illinois Withdraw Job Offer to Prof over Controversial Tweets?,
- Greg Lukianoff’s Response to Commissioner Yaki’s “Frontal Lobe” Argument Against Campus Free Speech,
- Public Records and the Occidental Sexual Assault Controversy,
- New Organization Founded to Promote Due Process on Campus,
- A Major, Exciting FIRE Announcement Is On Its Way,
- College Risk Management Lawyers Call Out FIRE (Without Doing Their Homework),
- ‘Disinvitation Season’ In Full Swing; IMF Head Next Victim,
- Due Process and Clarity Suffer in Feds’ Push to Address Campus Sexual Assault,
- New FIRE Video: Dartmouth Student Runs Over Free Speech,
- FIRE, Campus Press Freedom Highlighted in State Department Magazine,
- What's Dartmouth's Real Attitude about Due Process?,
- New Look, Same Mission: FIRE’s New Website and Logo!,
- Coming Soon: A New Look for FIRE!,
- Ge*rgetown University Reminds Us Again Why Censorship Is Ridiculous,
- Arizona State Turns to Censorship in Wake of Controversial Party,
- Video: FIRE on 'Fox & Friends',
- Do Kansas Regents' New Social Media Restrictions Threaten Accreditation?,
- Catch Greg on Fox Business' 'Cavuto' Tonight at 8!,
- ACLU of Mass: We're Still Waiting to Hear Why 'Too White' Afrobeat Band Was Canceled at Hampshire,
- Do School Admins Need to Have a Thicker Skin for Discussion of Social Issues?,
- The University of Kansas Controversy: Defending the Freedom to Tweet,
- Victory at University of Delaware,
- OCR Descends into Self-Parody in Front of Incredulous College Lawyers,
- AAUP's Committee on Women Expresses Deep Concern about Feds' Speech Code 'Blueprint',
- Mona Charen on the Feds’ ‘Blueprint’ for College Censorship,
- FIRE in 'Wall Street Journal': 'Feds to Students: You Can't Say That',
- Departments of Justice, Education Misquote the Supreme Court,
- 'Philadelphia Magazine' on 20 Years of Political Correctness and 'Unlearning Liberty',
- In 'The Wall Street Journal': 'A Mother, a Feminist, Aghast',
- On the Tragedy in Boston,
- Really, Harvard? You Read More Emails? I Mean, Really?,
- Florida Atlantic 'Jesus Stomp' Case: A Screwup from Start to Finish,
- FIRE Writes Florida Gov. Rick Scott over Speech Codes in 'Jesus Stomp' Case,
- State Laws Protecting Student Group Pluralism: Answering the Objections,
- Tufts Christian Fellowship Gives Up on Recognition,
- March Madness - Speech Codes Style,
- ‘So, Are You SURE I Can Write Whatever I Want in This Assignment?’,
- ‘Rape Is a Crime, Treat It as Such’,
- Lukianoff: ‘Teach the Habit of Debate’,
- Are Deans ‘Out of Their Depth’ When it Comes to Sexual Assault?,
- DePaul Student: Stop Me From Looking at Things I Don’t Like!,
- Mitch Daniels, in First Week as Purdue President, Talks Freedom of Opinion and Inquiry,
- Martin Luther King's Last Speech Discussed Our First Amendment,
- "A Bit of the Future Was Lost with the Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz",
- Sensitive Material and Classroom Discussion,
- Censoring Speech? There’s an Admin for That,
- Syracuse's Troubled Relationship with Free Speech,
- Greg Talks Religion and Free Speech on ‘Ricochet’,
- 'Forbes' Names FIRE's Kloster Among '30 Under 30: The Young People Who Are Shaping Law And Policy',
- U of Delaware Tries to Enforce Trademark Law Through Campus Courts,
- Can Tufts Handle Religious Pluralism?,
- Creeley: ‘Why Banning Offensive Speech on Campus Fails’,
- ‘The Imperiled Freedom the Candidates Ignored’,
- Greg on ‘Wall Street Journal Live’ This Afternoon—Watch Online!,
- Catch Greg on HuffPost Live Tonight at 5 p.m. Eastern!,
- Election Day: FIRE Makes a Campaign Promise,
- FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff in ‘The New York Times’; UPDATE: Readers Respond!,
- No Discipline Despite Threats After Student Covertly Records Congressman,
- FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff in ‘The New York Times’,
- Chico State Newspaper Covers Speech Code Questions,
- Responding to 'Preponderance of the Evidence' Advocates,
- Stony Brook University Latest Combatant in War on Humor,
- FIRE in the News: Watch Clips of ‘Stossel,’ ‘Red Eye’ Featuring FIRE Cases!,
- ‘The Eagle’ on How American U. Can Improve Its ‘Red Light’ Rating,
- In Which I Tell a University of Chicago Law Prof He’s Dead Wrong on Free Speech,
- Mississippians Celebrate Free Speech on State Campuses,
- Remembering September 11, 2001,
- Did Somebody Say ‘Gazongas’? You’re Busted!,
- New FIRE Video: How Religious Groups Were ‘Exiled from Vanderbilt,’ Featuring Larry Gatlin and Jonathan Rauch,
- On American Campuses, Does Innovation = Punishment?,
- Belief-Based Student Groups Score a Win at SUNY - Buffalo,
- Marc Bechtol: Prophet of Ill-Gotten Profit?,
- Connect with FIRE in DC Tomorrow!,
- U of Florida Seems to Have Control Issues When it Comes to Student Newspapers,
- 'Leaked' Sinclair CC 'Memo' Explains Terrorism Concerns Behind Sign Ban,
- For the Fourth: Benjamin Franklin (Kind Of) on Freedom of Speech,
- Is Harvard More Repressive Than the Town That Banned Swearing?,
- FIRE on the Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision,
- New FIRE Legal Scholarship Now Available Online,
- ‘Signs of trouble for free speech at Sinclair CC’,
- UCLA: When Caught, Just Lie About Stuff,
- Dueling Editorials at Stanford about Standard of Evidence,
- Unlearning Liberty at 'The Chronicle of Higher Education',
- ‘Off With His Head’ In Idaho,
- Vanderbilt Reaps What it Sows: Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill Banning ‘All Comers’ Policy,
- Cornell Grad Urges University Not to Abandon Protections for the Accused,
- University of Cincinnati Needs to Learn to Read,
- The top 12 worst colleges for free speech,
- Something Fishy in Wyoming,
- ‘Reason’ Riffs on ‘Hot for Teacher’ Case,
- Peter in 'PolicyMic' on Humor and Satire on Campus,
- Wichita State Drops Viewpoint Discrimination in Student Fee Funding,
- All-Comers Supporters: Don’t Worry, Bad Things will ‘Never Happen’!,
- Greg Talks College Censorship on Web Series ‘The B.S. of A.’,
- Arizona State Blocks Access to Change.org,
- Final Chance to Vote on Best ‘Firefly’ Tweet at Prizes.org,
- A 'Bake Sale' Protest at Aquinas College (Bucknell, Are You Listening?),
- Debate Over Religious Freedom Comes to a Head at Vanderbilt,
- FIRE’s Open Letter to Vanderbilt Regarding Religious and Political Organizations,
- Two Days Left to Craft Best ‘Firefly’ Video Tweet; Win $500 in Prizes,
- Happy Holidays from FIRE,
- FIRE's Bonilla in 'Daily Caller' on Auburn's Ban on a Ron Paul Poster,
- Celebrate the 220th Anniversary of the First Amendment by Tweeting Today,
- Students: Tweet About the First Amendment and Win a $5000 Scholarship!,
- Tragedy at Virginia Tech,
- Tweet Your Support for the First Amendment on December 15!,
- Ten Unlikely Free Speech Pioneers,
- Is Limiting Hate Speech a Good Idea?,
- How a Due Process Abuser Became a Rape Apologist,
- An Anonymous College Administrator Struggles with the OCR Letter,
- Caleb Warner Not Returning to University of North Dakota,
- Harvey Silverglate and Samantha Harris on Free Speech in 'Princeton Alumni Weekly',
- Adam Encourages Students to Defend Free Speech Rights at SHSU,
- Victory for Due Process: Student Punished for Alleged Sexual Assault Cleared by University of North Dakota; Accuser Still Wanted for Lying to Police,
- Adam in 'USA TODAY College' on Catawba Valley Case,
- Greg in 'The Daily Caller' on the End of 'Firefly' Censorship at UW-Stout,
- FIRE Asks Vanderbilt to Respect Religious Liberty,
- What's the Context of the 'Firefly' Quote?,
- Sam Houston State University Student Newspaper on Free Speech Wall Vandalism,
- Affirmative Action Bake Sale at Berkeley Causes Campus Consternation,
- Joanne Jacobs on the Harvard 'Kindness' Pledge,
- Virginia Postrel on Harvard's Kindness Pledge,
- FIRE Congratulates James Madison University for Abolishing Speech Codes,
- Peter in 'PolicyMic' on Harvard Freshman Pledge,
- Reaction to 'Wall Street Journal' Op-Ed on Injustice at University of North Dakota,
- Notre Dame Settles with OCR, Adopts Preponderance Standard, Restricts Free Speech,
- 'Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction',
- Did You Miss Greg on 'Stossel'? Watch it Online!,
- FIRE Challenges Yale to Stand Up for Free Speech on Campus,
- Greg on the New Government Threat to Campus Free Speech in 'The Daily Caller',
- 'Stossel' Episode Featuring FIRE Runs Again Tonight at 10 p.m.,
- What Passes for 'Justice' in Yale Fraternity Case,
- Should Fans of Free Speech Be Confined to Two Colleges in the Entire Country?,
- Brown University on Full Disclosure (or Lack Thereof),
- Widener Law Professor, Targeted For Firing, Sues Dean for Defamation,
- Kaminer on the "Loneliness of the Civil Libertarian Feminist,
- American University Says No to DOJ Grant Over Mandatory Sexual Assault Classes and Surveys,
- Widener Law School Attempting to Fire Professor for Classroom Speech,
- Why Doesn't FIRE Condemn This Viewpoint I Hate?,
- UCLA Student's 'Asians in the Library' Video Not Discriminatory Harassment,
- When Should a University Reopen a Sexual Assault Case?,
- Administrative Priorities at UNLV Law,
- Michigan State Admin: Stop Reading Your E-mail - It's Inefficient!,
- Wesleyan Realizes its New Housing Policy is Too Prohibitive,
- FIRE’s Erica Goldberg in 'The Tufts Daily' on Censorship at Tufts,
- FIRE's Creeley on Religious Campus Controversies,
- University of Delaware Professor Jan Blits Receives Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award,
- New Look for FIRE's Homepage,
- Questions Arise Over Israeli/Palestinian Event at Rutgers,
- Syracuse Statement Cements School's Top Spot on '12 Worst Schools for Free Speech' List,
- FIRE in 'The Huffington Post' on America's 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech,
- Peter on University Principles and ROTC,
- FIRE Highlights UGA's 'Scootergate' in New Video,
- 2010: The Year According to FIRE Staffers,
- UMass Chancellor Wonders Why College Coverage Is So Negative,
- FIRE to Administrators of Public Colleges Nationwide: Beware of Personal Liability for Free Speech Violations,
- FIRE's Kissel in 'New York Post' on Syracuse's War on Satire,
- Congress' Bad Idea and Other Issues: FIRE Media This Week,
- 'Tyler Clementi Act' a Grave Threat to Free Speech on Campus,
- Interview with FIRE's Lukianoff Featured in UK's 'spiked' Magazine,
- New Style of Blog Entries Coming to 'The Torch',
- Free Expression Blockade at NC State,
- New FIRE Video: Sean Clark on Penn State's Problem with 'God-Given Free Will',
- Greg to Speak in D.C. on the Crisis of Freedom of Association,
- Rogers State Official Out after FIRE Intervenes in Controversy,
- FIRE's Will Creeley on Free Speech in 'The Christian Science Monitor',
- Another Political Cartoon Controversy; This Time, at Eastern Michigan,
- 'The Daily Tar Heel' on FIRE at UNC-Chapel Hill,
- Professor Steven Pinker on FIRE, Censorship, and the 'Psychology of Taboo',
- How Do You Keep a College Student from Drinking?,
- 20 Percent of Students Feel Having Unpopular Views on Campus is Unsafe,
- California Bans Newspaper Censorship at Charter Schools,
- University of Texas Police Arrest Man for Standing Around Talking about Politics,
- KC Johnson on What Comes After 'CLS v. Martinez',
- FIRE's Lukianoff in Templeton Press Video Discussing 'New Threats to Freedom',
- FIRE Launches New Video Series With Short Film on Censorship of Gun-Related Speech,
- In Which Bucknell’s General Counsel Calls Me a Big Ole Liar,
- Wyoming Judge Agrees to Censorship of Newspapers at College's Request,
- Why Does FIRE Care About Swear Words, Anyway?,
- FIRE's Lukianoff on Hugh Hewitt Show Tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern,
- New FIRE Video on Vigilante Censorship Promotes Release of 'New Threats to Freedom',
- Marquette's Strained Relationship with Freedom of Expression,
- One Year Later, Heckler's Veto Shelved at University of North Carolina,
- Upcoming Book ‘New Threats to Freedom’ Features Chapter by FIRE President,
- Federal Court Orders University of Wyoming to Allow Ayers to Speak,
- Victory for Freedom of Association for University of Arizona Pro-Life Group,
- SPLC Rounds Up Media Reactions to Raid of JMU Newspaper,
- FIRE Chairman Harvey Silverglate in the 'Wall Street Journal',
- Cathy Young in 'The Boston Globe' on Duke's Unjust Sexual Misconduct Policy,
- Duke and the Art of Not Answering Questions,
- New Duke Policy Renders Students Unwitting Rapists,
- Victory for Free Speech: Duke Pro-Life Group's Free Speech Rights Restored,
- Is This How You Would Treat a 'Death Threat'?,
- Cal Poly Student Blogger on Adam Kissel and FIRE,
- Higher Ed Organizations File 'Amicus' Brief Opposing FIRE,
- Follow FIRE Chairman Harvey Silverglate on Twitter!,
- Kaminer on Freedom of Conscience in 'The Atlantic',
- Victory for Freedom of the Press: UC San Diego Ends Unconstitutional Funding Freeze,
- 33% of Faculty But Only 8% of Administrators See Pay Cuts in 2009-10,
- 'Verified Apology' for Noose Incident at UCSD,
- Why Doesn't FIRE Condemn [Insert Your Least Favorite Expression Here]?,
- Silverglate on 'Corrupted Language' in Campus Speech Codes, Federal Law,
- Cornell Continues Befuddlement over Freedoms of Religion and Association,
- Syracuse Ends Limits on Distribution of Student Magazine,
- CCAC Finally Approves Student Concealed Carry Advocacy Group,
- 'Roanoke Times' Covers Press Censorship at Virginia Tech; Gets FIRE Totally Wrong,
- Hitting the Nail on the Head,
- New Campaign Just Launched: Give Half for Liberty,
- FIRE Urges Ninth Circuit To Defend First Amendment on Campus in 'Ask God What Your Grade Is' Lawsuit,
- Ohio University Student Reporter Exposes Administrators' Selective Memories,
- FIRE's Tenth Anniversary Year in Review,
- Happy Anniversary, Bill of Rights!,
- FIRE’s Work at Minnesota Highlighted in Minneapolis ‘Star Tribune’,
- FOXNews.com Covers FIRE's University of Minnesota Ed School Case,
- Unprincipled Hypocrisy Drives UMass to Do the Right Thing--This Time,
- Illustrated Eyewitness Account Backs Up Southwestern Professors' Stories,
- Michael Barone Commends FIRE in Latest Column,
- FIRE's Biggest Ad Campaign Ever Hits 'U.S. News',
- Score One More for Conformity in Academia,
- Yale University Press Responds on Mohammed Cartoon Controversy,
- Alan Charles Kors on John Stuart Mill and Individual Liberty,
- Kaminer on Law Students and Academic Freedom,
- David French on the Risk of Citing High School Cases,
- "Ask God What Your Judgment Is": Another Speech Code Topples in Court,
- Bucknell Alumni on Bucknell,
- Bucknell to Student Conservatives, Liberty: Drop Dead,
- UCLA Student Permitted to Refer to Jesus in Graduation Statement,
- Liberty University Derecognizes College Democrats,
- “Cyberbullying” Bill Could Make FIRE Illegal,
- University of Chicago ‘Maroon’ Newspaper on FIRE and Free Speech,
- Angry Wisconsin Dean Resents Fair Procedures for Students,
- UNC Rejects the Heckler’s Veto,
- FIRE Video a Smash Hit on YouTube,
- FIRE Website Back Up After Hardware Failure,
- Harvard Professor and FIRE Director Richard Losick Wins Prestigious Medical Research Award,
- Jefferson ‘Muzzle’ Awards for Censorship Given to Two Colleges Involved in FIRE Cases,
- Wright State Case is FoxNews.com Featured Story,
- Wright State Sets Smokescreen in Campus Bible Fellowship Case,
- Wright State University Bans Christian Group from Campus,
- Final Stimulus Bill Contains Problematic Language on Religious Use of Facilities,
- FIRE Cautions University of North Carolina System against Implementing Hate Speech Policy,
- Ask God what your grade is,
- FIRE Shines a Light on Brandeis University in 'Huffington Post' and Full-Page Ad,
- Questionable Stimulus Bill Provision May be Eliminated,
- Stimulus Bill Presents Possible Conflict with Freedom of Religion on Campus,
- FIRE Board of Advisors Member Nat Hentoff Joins Cato Institute,
- Georgia Tech Ordered to Pay $203,734.14 for Violating Students’ Rights,
- Greg in ‘The Huffington Post’ on Michigan State,
- Brandeis Students Struggle with JuicyCampus and Anonymous Speech,
- N.C. State in Uproar Over Racist Messages in ‘Free Expression Tunnel’,
- Tennessee State Bans JuicyCampus.com from Network,
- Arizona 'Daily Wildcat' Fights Back Against Would-Be Censors,
- Greg in ‘The Huffington Post’ on Election-Related Speech on Campus,
- Breaking News: UT–Austin Suspends Rule on Political Signs,
- Don’t Say the Magic Word!,
- FIRE Officially Comments on Tufts’ Draft Free Speech Declaration,
- Cornell’s Hostility to Free Speech Hits a New Peak,
- Controversy on Palin Assignment at Metro State: FIRE’s Lukianoff is On the Scene,
- Valdosta State Comes Off FIRE’s Red Alert List,
- How Can Tufts University Get Off FIRE’s Red Alert List?,
- Terrorism Awareness Project Calls for Defunding of Muslim Student Association Chapters Because of Their Views,
- Judge Lifts Gag Order on MIT ‘Subway Hackers’,
- MIT Student Censorship by Boston MBTA Continues,
- Who Wants College Censorship?,
- Students Censored—by the Boston ‘T’?,
- ‘Emotional Safety?’,
- Regarding NAS’ Argus Project,
- National Association of Scholars Launches ‘Argus Project’,
- Ex-FBI Agent Hired to Find Author of Critical Tract at Cambridge College,
- FIRE’s CFN Conference Going on Now,
- ‘Libel Tourism’ Hits American Academia,
- Greg in the Huffington Post on Harvard’s ‘Barely Legal’ Party,
- University of California Promises to Defy Newspaper Advisor Protection Law,
- Put Up a FIRE Widget, Get a Free T-Shirt or Mug,
- The Spin Continues at Cal State–Fullerton,
- Duke’s Slow Suffocation of Due Process,
- Tarrant County College Bans Empty Holster Protest,
- How Not to “Exercise Freedom of Speech”,
- Fewer Bros to be Tased at University of Florida,
- What Did President Celeste Really Think About The Monthly Bag?,
- Colorado College President Celeste Blogs on “The Monthly Bag”,
- College Accreditors Mandating Civility?,
- Video of Hayden Barnes and Valdosta State on FOX News,
- FIRE Begins its Career in Broadcasting,
- Illusions over Solutions on College Campuses,
- Last Chance to Support FIRE in 2007,
- Speech Restrictions and the Law in 2007,
- Help FIRE Help America’s Colleges,
- Another Former Delaware RA Speaks Out,
- Hamline Responds to FIRE’s Press Release,
- Michael Barone on ‘Ivory Tower Decay’,
- Ahmadinejad at Columbia Wrapup,
- Ahmadinejad at Columbia Roundup,
- ‘Until Proven Innocent’ and Duke’s President,
- David Bernstein on Summers, Chemerinsky, and Academic Freedom,
- Minuteman Founder to Speak at Columbia University,
- Add FIRE’s Speech Code Widget to Your Website, Get a Free T-Shirt!,
- ‘Cavalier Daily’ Cartoonist Fired for Politically Incorrect Cartoons,
- Cartoon Controversy at the University of Virginia,
- KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor in ‘The Washington Post’,
- Tufts Frustrates Students’ Wish for Dialogue,
- Big Brother: Coming to a Campus Near You,
- Oxford Spies on Students through Facebook,
- FIRE Launches ‘Red Alert’ List of Worst Offenders Against Liberty,
- Fred Thompson on FIRE’s Case at Marquette,
- Antioch’s Infamous Sexual Assault Policy,
- More Evidence That Tufts Let Bloomberg Down,
- Duke Student Government President Wants to Exclude Illegal Evidence,
- Well, That Was Fast,
- Tufts Shoves Bloomberg's Speech Down the Memory Hole,
- Tufts President Bacow Just Doesn’t Get It,
- Stanley Fish on FIRE in ‘The New York Times’,
- URI President Carothers Responds to FIRE Ally,
- Sectarian Institutions and Free Speech,
- FIRE Attacked in ‘The Chronicle of Higher Education’,
- More Than 20 Killed at Virginia Tech,
- Dartmouth College: A ‘Green Light’ Institution?,
- FIRE in the ‘Chronicle’ on Political Litmus Tests for Education Students,
- Rosenberger Run Amok?,
- NYU Student Blows the Whistle on Speech Codes,
- Talk Online With Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris,
- FIRE’s Samantha Harris Profiled in the ‘Daily Princetonian’,
- God and Man in San Francisco,
- John Leo on the Campus Censors,
- Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
- AHA Rejects Speech Zones but Refuses to Reject Speech Codes,
- Art Not So Popular at the Art Institute of California,
- Happy New Year from Your Friends at FIRE,
- Help Give Students and Faculty a Happy New Year,
- Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee of Censorship Agree: We Hate FIRE!,
- University of Georgia President Sends Students on All-Expenses-Paid Guilt Trip,
- NYU President John Sexton: Free Speech Hypocrite,
- Jason Antebi on Hopkins and Facebook,
- Film Students Asked to Sign Disclosure of ‘Offensive’ Content,
- Student Sues U. of Tampa over Plagiarism Accusation,
- FIRE, Carol Iannone, and the Amy Gutmann Halloween Costume Controversy,
- Dartmouth Alums Vote Down New Constitution,
- Social Work Injustice on Inside Higher Ed,
- Marquette’s Student Newspaper on Censorship at Marquette,
- FIRE to HHS: No Political Litmus Tests for Social Workers,
- Due Process at Dartmouth,
- Was What Happened at Columbia ‘Civil Disobedience’?,
- Columbia Student Senate Committee Votes ‘Yea’ on Free Speech,
- ‘Seattle Times’ Columnist Weighs In on Professor Peter Ratener,
- The Watermelon Rolls On,
- Bellevue’s Overreaction, Part II,
- 'Know Before You Go',
- FIRE Featured in FOXNews.com College Series,
- Corporatization of Student Newspapers: Boon or Bane?,
- Higher Ed Journals Cover the Kershnar Case,
- Students Beware! A Thousand College Lawyers are Watching You,
- Gender Gap in College Grows… But ACE Says No Reason to Worry,
- Defining ‘Harassment’ Down at SUNY-New Paltz,
- ‘Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof’,
- Maryland State Senator Protests Censorship at Johns Hopkins,
- Hopkins Responds,
- Justice for Political Dissenters,
- FIRE Defends Free Speech Over Memorial Day Weekend,
- Colorado Releases Report on Churchill Academic Misconduct Charges,
- Are pictures of abortion ‘hate speech?’,
- USC Prof’s Topless Photos Raise Eyebrows,
- More Shocking Offensiveness from a College Newspaper,
- Bill of Rights Remains a Mystery in Madison,
- John Leo Awards ‘Sheldons’ to the Richly Deserving,
- Candace de Russy: Finally Free to Speak,
- Thought Reform Guide Reviewed by National Review Online,
- Georgia Tech Sued Over Speech Code,
- Harvard Law: A Parody of Freedom,
- Penn State to Address the Nuisance of Democracy,
- More Insanity at DePaul: Racial Graffiti a Hoax?,
- How the AHA Lost Its Way,
- Tribunal Tribulations,
- Wisconsin Regents’ Education Committee Approves New Bible Study Policy,
- Free Speech Has a Friend in Canada,
- Not-So-Free Speech: Canadians Beware!,
- The Speech Larry Summers Should Have Given,
- Free Speech Lawsuits Filed Against Penn State and Temple,
- Newspaper Theft at Troy University: Facebook Article Involved?,
- Appeals Brief Filed in Occidental Lawsuit,
- Couldn’t Have Said It Better Ourselves,
- Fiddling While UNC Burns,
- American Hypocrites’ Association,
- Cal State vs. the Constitution,
- The War on Christians (and Muslims),
- DePaul = Deceit,
- Will Student Press Freedom Survive in Kansas?,
- UNC Restores Tradition of Holiday Travesties,
- Washington State Rejects Mob Censorship—Finally,
- False Harassment Accusations: A Moral Outrage,
- Penn Abuses Its Sexual Harassment Policy,
- UWEC’s Edifice of Repression Begins to Crumble,
- The Daly Show,
- Have RAs Surrendered Their Religious Rights?,
- UWEC and the Purpose of Principles,
- God and Man in Wisconsin,
- Arizona State Claims Segregation Never Happened—But Evidence Says Differently,
- New York Private College Rules: Not Worth the Paper They’re Written On,
- Does For-Profit Equal Anti-Rights?,
- More Bad News for Student Press Freedom,
- ‘The New York Times’ on Bias in Legal Academia,
- The NCAA’s Official Speech Code,
- ‘That Is Insanity’,
- All the News That’s Fit to Be Censored,
- Please Don’t Hit Me With That—Keyboard?,
- Well, That Was Quick,
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Students,
- Lukianoff in ‘Inside Higher Ed’,
- Harvard Law’s Tribal Conflict,
- ‘Disposition’ Leaves Students Indisposed,
- Victory for Free Speech at SUNY Brockport,
- UWEC Responds to FIRE,
- Pressuring College Presidents,
- Piracy on the Increase in Academia,
- Are Applicants Avoiding Politicized Colleges?,
- FIRE Gets Results,
- Affirmative Action Bake Sale Banned—Again,
- A Not-So-Happy Easter at Penn Law,
- FIRE’s French on Fox News Today,
- Silverglate Reponds to Critic of UMass Amherst Column,
- Oxy’s Bane,
- Is SUNY Brockport in the House?,
- A No-Confidence Vote in Academia?,
- Here Comes the Judge: UNC Enjoined,
- Freedom of the Press at Oregon,
- Alabama and the American Flag,
- Roll Tide: Free Speech at Alabama,
- ‘The Oklahoman’ Runs FIRE’s Column on Bias at OU,
- Rhode Island College vs. Freedom—Again,
- Calls for Censorship in Texas,
- Conflicts of Interest at Columbia?,
- The ‘Friends’ of Free Speech,
- The Censors’ Favorite Team,

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