I remember my great uncle on the farms of Illinois who loved to say, “When one person calls you a horse’s ass, don’t worry. When three people do, go out and buy a saddle.” As a president, you multiply ...
And how we get it back. Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January ...
What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...
A Supreme Court decision saying a school district could not punish a student for profane complaints made on a weekend and off school grounds will not stem the torrent of crude, disrespectful speech in ...
There’s a reason I call freedom of speech "the eternally radical idea." After all, what do you call an idea that has a clear track record of promoting innovation, human flourishing, prosperity, and ...
Since his dystopian speech outside of Independence Hall in 2022, President Joe Biden has made "democracy is on the ballot" his campaign theme. Pundits have repeated the mantra, claiming that if Biden ...
The commission replied, in a statement emailed to The Associated Press, that equal time law “encourages more speech and ...
Free speech isn’t just political—it’s essential to mental health. A free speech culture strengthens cognitive resilience, ...
The right to free speech is part of our American identity, but what if some forms of speech use this idea of freedom against us? Increasingly, certain forms of speech — hate speech and disinformation ...
Last week, the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT were called before Congress to address antisemitism on campus. During five hours of testimony, their studied hypocrisy triggered a bipartisan ...