‘So to Speak’ podcast transcript: The Stanford shout-down with David Lat

David Lat joins So to Speak, the free speech podcast, where every other week we take an uncensored look at the world of free expression through personal stories and candid conversations.

FIRE Letter to University of Utah, March 23, 2023

The Stanford shout-down with David Lat

UPDATE: Just as this podcast was to be published, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez sent to the law school community outlining a path forward for the school, including updating school policies to prevent future speaker disruptions and mandatory...

FIRE Guide for Greek Organizational Advisors

Based on FIRE's 24 years of campus advocacy, this guide is designed to help chapter advisors navigate the labyrinth of campus disciplinary proceedings.

FIRE Guide for Greek Life: Know Your Rights

This guide provides fraternity and sorority members with a concise summary of their fundamental free speech, freedom of association, and due process rights.

Teaching Healthy Discourse

This unit provides students with information and strategies for engaging in meaningful conversations with their peers.

Debate Activity Kit

Students who wish to be effective, persuasive communicators must develop argumentation skills.

Handling Offensive Speech

This unit will address the social-emotional aspects of dealing with unwelcome but protected speech, and covers ways that students can build resilience, refutation, self-advocacy, and coping skills.

Election Lesson

This featured lesson provides educators with a structured lesson plan and a range of resources designed to help them lead successful classroom discussions of the competing candidates and issues, even during a contentious election year.

The Law and Free Speech

This lesson explores the landmark cases and legal reasoning behind the strong speech protections that Americans uniquely enjoy, while correcting some common misconceptions.

Speech, Power, and Censorship in American History

Free speech rights have proven themselves essential in securing a fair hearing for demands for justice and equal Constitutional protection for marginalized groups and isolated, targeted individuals throughout U.S. history.

Current Free Speech Issues

This lesson explores some of the most popular arguments against free speech and how to respond to them, as well as why it can be important to voice your opinion, even if it’s an unpopular one.

The Philosophy of Free Speech

This unit reviews the unique inheritance of basic rights and freedoms bestowed on all American citizens by our founding documents, which draw from Enlightenment conceptions of liberty and individual human dignity.

Ben Franklin and the First Amendment

Ben Franklin was an influential champion of free speech and freedom of the press during the founding and formation of the United States of America. This lesson takes a look at two of Franklin’s works – Silence Dogood No. 8 and “On the Freedom of the Press” in order to gain insight into his thinking about two of our fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.

‘So to Speak’ podcast transcript: Ilya Shapiro on Fox/Dominion and his 'cancel culture nightmare'

Ilya Shapiro joins So to Speak, the free speech podcast, where every other week we take an uncensored look at the world of free expression through personal stories and candid conversations.