Minnesota’s anti-ICE protests have become a First Amendment stress test — showing what speech is protected, what isn’t, and how power abuses blur in real time.
Neighbors turning in neighbors for wrong-think cultivates the habits of an unfree society. We shouldn’t train students to do it—and we certainly shouldn’t build hotlines for it.
People defend free speech when it protects them, but not when it protects their opponents. This week, Greg Lukianoff discusses the importance of standing up for everyone’s rights.
However difficult it might be for universities to reestablish these norms after decades of encouraging the opposite, failing to do so will have dire consequences.
If college students are seen sporting riot gear on campus this fall, no one should blame them: In all likelihood, campus events and even classes will be canceled this semester due to the actions of some of their fellow students.
University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill and board chair Scott Bok announced their resignations after McGill said the university should back away from its traditional protection of speech.
It is most commonly estimated that around 100 college professors were fired for real or imagined communist sympathies during the Red Scare. But what if I told you it's worse today, much worse, across multiple important metrics?
New York Times v. Sullivan has secured breathing space for all Americans to challenge the powerful without having to fear a ruinous court battle over mere words.
