So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast takes an uncensored look at the world of free expression throug
In Shakespeare’s 1599 play “Julius Caesar,” the title character is warned by a soothsayer to “beware
It was 100 years ago this month that the Espionage Act of 1917 was signed into law by President Wood
Simon Tam likes to quote Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous line — paraphrased from transcendentalist T
George Mason University Professor Tyler Cowen has spent the better part of the last 40 years on coll
FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff once declared 2014 the year of the heckler. But after high pro
Where are the new frontiers in First Amendment law? Where do scholars and the courts see the potenti
Ira Glasser is one of the most consequential civil liberties figures in American history. He ran the
Sex and the Constitution are not two topics often thought of together. But University of Chicago Law
On April 6, Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald was standing in Claremont McKenna College’
From Buckley v. Valeo (1976) to Citizens United v. FEC (2010), legal disputes over the constitutiona
New technologies and the censorship instinct seem to go hand-in-hand. From the first days of the pri
Daryl Davis, a 58-year-old black man, has a question: “How can you hate me if you don’t even know me
In 1994, law student Rob Corry joined with eight other students to file a legal challenge to a Stanf
Flemming Rose didn’t set out to put himself at the center of one of the biggest free speech controve
We continue our conversation about the Turkish government’s crackdown on civil society with Middle E
If you care about free expression, you should care about what’s happening in Turkey. Since a failed
Ken White has made a name for himself in First Amendment circles for his particularly astute and oft
A precipitous decline in the percentage of schools maintaining severely restrictive speech codes. A
In July, the ACLU tapped Georgetown University Law Center Professor David Cole to be its new nationa
Attorney Martin Garbus’ client list is a who’s who of the world’s foremost artists, politicians, cor
