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Legally Irrelevant Considerations Cloud the Debate About Kyle Rittenhouse's Acquittal: The Jury Rightly Concluded That the Prosecution Failed to Prove Its Case Nov. 24, 2021
"I stand by what the jury has concluded," President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday after Kyle Ri... Read More
School Board Meetings Show Only That Freedom Is Messy Oct. 19, 2021
PITTSBURGH — Twenty years ago, Paul Carson said he never would have hesitated to speak out at ... Read More
BEEReaucrats Oct. 06, 2021
Jim Caruso, CEO of Flying Dog Brewery, calls his business a "First Amendment brewery." That's becaus... Read More
Oregon School Board Flag Censors Flunk Patriotism Test Sep. 21, 2021
When Oregon school officials tried to banish political symbols from the classroom, English teacher G... Read More
Loo and Behold: A First Amendment Toilet! Sep. 09, 2021
Frederick "Hank" Robar just turned 80, and he's a happy man. The toilet gardens he erected around hi... Read More
Free Speech, or a Recognized Right To Be Disruptive and Rude? Sep. 08, 2021
Radical right members of local councils and school boards around the country are energized like neve... Read More
Protect Citizens Who Film Cops Aug. 31, 2021
Do you have a First Amendment right to record police officers in public? If you instinctively said y... Read More
Twitter, Trump and the Taliban Aug. 26, 2021
If there is one iconic photograph that defines World War II, it is the picture of six marines planti... Read More
First Under Fire: Freedom of Speech Gets Squeezed From Both Sides Aug. 17, 2021
"When I was a kid, I was shy," Ira Glasser, the longtime head of the American Civil Liberties Union,... Read More
Vanity Plates: A Free Speech Frontier Jul. 31, 2021
The license plate prudes may win a few battles; but when the exhaust smoke clears, they will lose th... Read More
A Turning Point for Student Speech? Jun. 26, 2021
Students are largely free to speak their minds off campus without fear of school punishment, even if... Read More
Baker Jack Phillips -- A Cultural Hero Jun. 18, 2021
Colorado baker Jack Phillips is a perpetual offender. He simply will not do. His offense? Unswerving... Read More
Free Speech Isn't About Power Jun. 12, 2021
Seeking to burnish his reputation as a reformer, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman openly criticized ... Read More
Commencement Speech Censors Stand Down May. 29, 2021
As high schools across the country resume traditional graduation ceremonies following a pandemic-imp... Read More
Do Anti-BDS Laws Restrict Speech? The Line Between Commercial Decisions and Advocacy Is Not As Clear As Opponents of Anti-Israel Boycotts Suggest May. 26, 2021
Two months after the journalist Abby Martin agreed to give the main address at Georgia Southern Univ... Read More
Half-Baked Bills Target Tech Giants May. 01, 2021
Fuming at Facebook for deleting your post? Having a temper tantrum over a Twitter takedown? You coul... Read More
Exercise Your Freedom of Speech. Write an Op-Ed Apr. 30, 2021
I used to write a mommy blog for a parenting publication. After it won an award (and with my editor'... Read More
Drawing the Lines in the Cancel Culture Apr. 24, 2021
In January, Simon & Schuster canceled its agreement to publish a book, presumably a memoir-cum-polit... Read More
Big Tech and Free Speech Apr. 22, 2021
A colleague recently asked me if I approved of Big Tech censoring political and cultural voices on t... Read More
Ending Big Tech Tyranny Apr. 07, 2021
On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas announced that the Supreme Court soon will have to put an end to ... Read More
