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Three big pieces for your New Year’s reading!
How to protect Jewish students on campus, photographers in public parks, and more this Festivus Eve!
Ten last-minute gifts for free speech fans
The Campus Deplatforming Hall of Fame
Grim picture for faculty free speech, Matt Ridley’s ‘Evolution of Everything’ FTW, & lots o’ KOSA!
New KOSA, same as the old KOSA
NJ town council tries to ban the Constitution, DC Circuit court rules against Tik Tok, & more!
Lesson 3: Beware of O'Sullivan's Curse
Why we at FIRE are thankful for free speech this Thanksgiving
(Some of) higher ed reckons with reality, the AAUP triples down, the FCC won't let us be, & more!
WSJ plugs FIRE’s SM report, Lesson 2 in keeping FIRE nonpartisan, & more!
Lesson 2: Promote and preserve viewpoint diversity
Campuses need scholars over activists! Teenage plaintiff stands up to hospital SLAPP threat! & more!
Misinformation! Mchangama on 'Fearless Speech'! And words are (still) not violence!!!
Lesson 1: Be willing to drive the bus into a wall
Surprise! Justice in Arizona! Looking back on the Berkeley FSM, & more!
Mary Anne Franks, free speech, & how power rationalizes its need for more
UMich goes all in on DEI, Villareal may get her day in (the Supreme) Court, & more!
'Coddling' and 'Canceling': A Tale of Two Titles
AAUP endorses political litmus tests & the ‘Coddling’ documentary comes to Amazon
The 5 top stories in ERI’s first year
How Tim Walz got free speech very wrong at the Vice Presidential Debate
Penn waxes censorial, FIRE victory in San Antonio, & more!
SURVEY: Students are looking to report professors for wrongthink
FIRE will fight! … For your right! … To Cardi!
Yes, when it comes to using violence to stop speech, even 'rarely' is too much
Bungled protest responses leave students confused, worried about campus speech
FIRE’s 2025 College Free Speech Rankings, Surprise! lawsuit, & more!
Five quick takeaways from FIRE’s 2025 College Free Speech Rankings
Deeper into defining 'Cancel Culture' with Scott Alexander
Censors NERF the world! The U.K. goes Orwellian! A New Hope for Columbia? & more!
‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ by Jeffrey Rosen wins this month’s Prestigious Ashurbanipal Book Award
(Still) Boycotting academic boycotts, firing back at Fordham, & Beyoncé’s ‘Countdown’ clone!
Required reading for 'Free Speech 101'
Word Wars: The (British) Empire Strikes Back!
A Q&A on sadness and social justice fundamentalism in ‘Plain English’
Scarlett Johannson claims ChatGPT stole her voice, NIH scrubs SM comments, & more!
Five reasons why Scott Alexander should love our definition of Cancel Culture
'An orgy of vengeance,' disrespecting flags & anthems, and yelling 'Fire' in a crowded theater
Continuing "The Coddling" Conversation
Nashville gets copyright wrong, 'So to Speak' tackles political violence, and RIP Bob Newhart
Why the ‘words are violence’ argument needs to die
SCOTUS keeps government out of the liquor cabinet & Tim Ferris shares the advice of titans
The First Amendment ISN'T out of control
Anti-Semitism is a real problem — but the Antisemitism Awareness Act is unconstitutional
Is the Efficient Rhetorical Fortress insufficient? You tell us!
Towards a 'More Perfect' Rhetorical Fortress!
From the E.U. to China to Uzbekistan — censorship is so hot right now!
Dropping DEI statements is a great start, but ideological litmus tests are the real issue
‘Canceling’ readers! We need your feedback!
The mental health consequences of social justice fundamentalism
Australia: God Emperor of Global Speech! & ‘Canceling’ gets its day in court
‘Why Buddhism is True’ by Robert Wright wins this month’s Prestigious Ashurbanipal Book Award
‘Certainty is the mind-killer’ & the story behind my first-ever commencement address
Campus Chaos: Navigating free speech, unrest, and the need for reform in higher education
The skeptics were wrong, Part 3
A boring week in free speechery, on campus and beyond! (lol, no)
‘Hypocrisy projection,’ civil disobedience at Columbia and beyond, and how Texas got it wrong
Rushdie Returns! Title IX Strikes Again! The Manchurian Undergraduate! And more!
My big John Cleese release, Neil Howe talks 'The Fourth Turning' & more!
My First Amendment concerns with ‘The Anxious Generation’
‘UnHerd’ of levels of deplatforming, Taiwan models how to combat misinfo without censorship & more!
'The Revolt of the Public' is April’s Prestigious Ashurbanipal Award winner
Come see me in VA! Amy Wax debates! Guernica Guernicas itself! AND MORE!
Abigail Shrier versus the Perfect Rhetorical Fortress
‘Reverse CBT’ in UnHerd, free speech as ‘The Language of the Powerless’ & more John Cleese!
The skeptics were wrong, Part 2
Veritas-ish at Harvard & news from the Garden State
The skeptics were wrong, Part 1
Canceled for writing about cancel culture? And why we are willing to ‘Drive this bus into a wall.'
Campus deplatforming: A data bonanza
A new piece in The Free Press, the release of the first National Speech Index, and more!
Online censorship in the UK has led to far more arrests than the first Red Scare
New ‘Coddling’ documentary gets the red carpet treatment!
The campus DEI bureaucracy is a threat to free speech
FIRE’s ‘Top Ten Worst Censors’, Rikki on Mike Rowe’s podcast, and more!
Announcing the new ‘Coddling’ documentary and some advice on fighting depression
Mr. Lukianoff goes to Washington & introducing FIRE’s Campus Deplatforming Database
A Tale of Two Congressional Hearings (and several AI poems)
FIRE Victory at Princeton, Michael Malice on 'So to Speak' & more!
Mill’s Trident: An argument every fan (or opponent) of free speech must know
The state of free expression in China & 'Canceling' in Quillette
Yes, the last 10 years really have been worse for free speech
Misinformation panic at Davos & Mitch Daniels recommends 'Canceling' in the WSJ
Administrators — not just DEI administrators — are the biggest threat to free speech on campus
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