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John Leo on FIRE and Free Speech
John Leo has an excellent article on Townhall.com discussing the status of free speech on our nation’s college campuses. In the article, Leo highlights the case of Troy Scheffler at Hamline University, who was suspended for suggesting in an e-mail to an administrator that students should be permitted to carry concealed weapons on campus.
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Remembering 'free-thinking' writer Nat Hentoff
Podcast
On January 7, 2017, The Associated Press announced that
"Free-thinking author and columnist Nat Hentoff is dead at 91."
The trouble with banning Fizz
On college campuses across the country, students and administrators are debating bans on Fizz, a mobile app that lets users within a particular community communicate anonymously.
FIRE's 2025 impact in court, on campus, and in our culture
We are proud to serve as the nation's premier free speech watchdog. Here's what we accomplished this year.
VICTORY: Court vindicates professor investigated for parodying university’s ‘land acknowledgment’ on syllabus
Ninth Circuit rules UW violated the First Amendment by punishing a professor for putting a satirical land acknowledgment on his syllabus.