After the Constitution was ratified in June of 1788, George Washington and James Madison urged the members of Congress to support the addition of the Bill of Rights, inspired by the notion that ...

Being openly conservative at a liberal university comes with certain hazards, according to Miguel Muniz and Martin Bertao. They are the incoming and outgoing presidents of the University of California ...

Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. All year we’ve bandied about phrases like “civil discourse, ...

What if the speech is offensive or hateful? Questions of free speech — the right to articulate opinions without censorship, interference or retaliation from the government — come up all the time at a ...

W e expect a great deal of criticism of our new book, It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom, but we were taken aback by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder’s misconstrual of its ...

On March 2, President Donald Trump announced his plan to issue an executive order in favor of free speech at public and private universities. Speaking before the Conservative Political Action ...

The protests on college campuses over the Hamas-Israel war are receiving a lot of attention. However, amidst the cancellations of classes, occupation of buildings, and even instances of firing ...

Burt looks at how Freedom of Speech became central to the US creed. 1 Freedom of Speech is central to Burt’s work, which is why he put together two programs dealing with the subject. In this first ...

Traditional media has often been characterized by its inaccessible barriers to entry. The costs associated with distributing content in major publications were, and still are, a prominent deterrent ...

With the 2024 election quickly approaching, employers should expect an increase in political conversation and activity in the workplace. It is essential during political seasons for both employers and ...

President Donald Trump said his administration "took the freedom of speech away" as it relates to flag burning. During an Oct. 8 roundtable discussion on Antifa, Trump referenced conservative ...