Greg Lukianoff

About Greg Lukianoff

Greg Lukianoff is an attorney and the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). He is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate and Freedom From Speech, as well as a co-author of The Atlantic’s September 2015 cover story, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” written in partnership with Jonathan Haidt. Greg has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, TIME, The Boston Globe, Forbes, the New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, The Stanford Technology Law Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reason, CNET, The Daily Caller, Congressional Quarterly, The Charleston Law Review, and numerous other publications. Greg, along with Harvey A. Silverglate and David French, is a co-author of FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus. He is also a blogger for The Huffington Post and Ricochet.com. Greg is a frequent guest on local and national syndicated radio programs; has represented FIRE on national television shows, including CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning, NBC’s Today Show, CNN’s New Day, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Fox’s Special Report and The O’Reilly Factor, Fox Business’s Stossel and The Independents, and MSNBC’s Dr. Nancy; and has testified before both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives about free speech issues on America’s campuses. In 2008 he became the first ever recipient of the Playboy Foundation Freedom of Expression Award and in 2010 he received Ford Hall Forum’s Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award on behalf of FIRE. Greg is also an executive producer for Can We Take a Joke?, a feature-length documentary that explores the collision between comedy, censorship, and outrage culture on and off campus.
 
Greg is a graduate of American University and of Stanford Law School, where he focused on First Amendment and constitutional law. Before joining FIRE, Greg practiced law in Northern California, interned at the ACLU of Northern California and the Organization for Aid to Refugees in Prague, Czech Republic, and was the development manager of the EnvironMentors Project in Washington, D.C. Greg is also a proud member of the board of directors of Philadelphia’s Theatre Exile. In his free time, Greg also runs the Genetic Music Project, an open source genetic art project combining music and science.

Commentary

  • ​Jim Sleeper Gets It Wrong in ‘The New York Times’, September 4, 2016

  • Progress at Yale, But a Conspicuous Omission, November 13, 2015

  • Next Up: The Big Screen and Debate Stage, September 11, 2015

  • A ‘Global First Amendment’, April 14, 2015

  • Washington, D.C.: Come Watch Me Debate Political Correctness and Free Speech on Campus!, February 19, 2015

  • More on Lawrence Summers’s Academic Freedom and BDS Speech, February 6, 2015

  • Five Reasons You Should Support FIRE in 2014, December 29, 2014

  • My Cyber Acknowledgment Section for ‘Freedom From Speech’, September 11, 2014

  • When Campus Intolerance Means Free Speech Gets Torn Up and Run Over, Literally, March 21, 2014

  • Last Chance to Donate in 2013!, December 31, 2013

    • Articles

  • The Huffington Post, August 11, 2016, The Story Behind The New Documentary ‘Can We Take a Joke?’

  • Cato Institute, January 4, 2016, Campus Free Speech Has Been in Trouble for a Long Time

  • Daily News, November 15, 2015, The Censors Must Not Win: Campus Thought Police Have Run Amok — but All Is Not Lost

  • The Washington Post, November 11, 2015, On the Front Lines of the Fight for Free Speech at Yale

  • The Huffington Post, September 28, 2015, Every University in the Country Should Adopt the University of Chicago’s Academic Freedom Statement

  • The Huffington Post, August 21, 2015, A Dozen Things ‘The New Yorker’ Gets Wrong about Free Speech (And Why It Matters)

  • Ricochet, August 11, 2015, How Campus Censorship Culture Could Be Causing Students Psychological Harm

  • The Huffington Post, August 10, 2015, 3 Quick Notes About ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’

  • The Atlantic, August 10, 2015, The Backstory to ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’

  • The Atlantic, August 10, 2015, The Coddling of the American Mind