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How can we restore a culture of free expression — the key component of academic and intellectual exploration — at Yale? Read more

Normalizing the idea that institutions should “cancel” people for unpopular speech hands those institutions expanded discretionary power. Read more

FIRE calls on VCU to abandon its policy of banning all first-semester students from joining Greek life. Read more

FIRE and the Woodhull Freedom Foundation filed an amici curiae brief with a Virginia state court tasked with determining if two books are legally obscene. Read more

FIRE wrote University of Texas at Dallas urging it to end an investigation into Prof Timothy Farage over his tweet about finding a “cure for homosexuality.” Read more

1619 project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones was denied tenure by UNC’s board of trustees in response to the controversy generated by her work. Read more

In recognition of FIRE’s expansion into off-campus free speech advocacy work, summer intern Abby Varricchio examines how a popular card game reveals important lessons about free speech culture. What lesson took you the longest to unlearn? Have you changed your mind about anything recently? What about me is the hardest for you to understand?  These... Read more Read more

Glenville State University’s sexual harassment website provides an overbroad definition of sexual harassment that includes constitutionally protected speech Read more

Substack made free speech one of its core values and, in doing so, has attracted bloggers and journalists from across the political spectrum. Read more

Penn State tells student group it isn’t responsible for excessive security fees for on-campus event after letter from FIRE Read more