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September 11, 2017
The UNC Board Bans a Prominent Civil-Rights Center From Litigating
Under a new policy, the University of North Carolina’s Center for Civil Rights is forbidden from representing minority and low-income clients in court.
Zoë Carpenter
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September 8, 2017
Why Berkeley’s Battle Against White Supremacy Is Not About Free Speech
The alt-right’s First Amendment narratives just give cover to campaigns of intimidation.
Meleiza Figueroa and David Palumbo-Liu
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September 5, 2017
The Messy Business of Free Speech
What’s missing from Floyd Abrams’s book The Soul of the First Amendment.
Gara LaMarche
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August 9, 2017
Activists Are Rallying for Colin Kaepernick, but Aiming Far Higher Than One Man’s Career
Protesters will rally for racial justice and free speech outside the NFL headquarters on August 23.
Dave Zirin
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May 26, 2017
Hillary Clinton Roasts the Toxic Trump Administration in a Remarkable Speech
“When people in power invent their own facts and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society.”
John Nichols
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March 29, 2017
Students and Farmworkers Are Teaming Up to Boot Wendy’s Off Their Campuses
The effort is part of a national campaign to pressure Wendy’s to improve their labor practices.
Molly Minta
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March 17, 2017
The Deeper Lessons of the Incident at Middlebury
The Manichean model of framing political conflicts polarizes public life, unravels the bonds of common citizenship, and doesn’t create a broad majority base for significant change.
Harry C. Boyte
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March 14, 2017
Middlebury: Who Pays for Free Speech?
By offering Charles Murray not just a platform but also departmental sanction and a presidential introduction, Middlebury let down those students denigrated by his work.
D.D. Guttenplan
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March 3, 2017
A Memorial for Nat Hentoff
The journalist’s spirit of freewheeling dispute was very much in evidence.
Leslie Savan
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February 7, 2017
What Might Mario Savio Have Said About the Milo Protest at Berkeley?
The 1960s Berkeley Free Speech Movement leader warned that freedom exercised irresponsibly or freedom repressed could “bring disgrace upon our university.”
Robert Cohen