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Salman Rushdie Doesn’t Want to Be Your ‘Free Speech Barbie’

March 14, 2026

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Katie Miller Makes a Classic Error

January 30, 2026

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Cancel Culture’s Boomerang Effect

December 23, 2025

The Myth of the Campus Snowflake

Christopher L. Eisgruber

September 30, 2025

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The Emptiness of Attacking Critics for Their Hypocrisy

September 26, 2025

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What Republicans Can Do If They Really Want to Protect Free Speech

Conor Friedersdorf

September 25, 2025

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The Constitution Protects Jimmy Kimmel’s Mistake

September 18, 2025

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The Irony of Using Charlie Kirk’s Murder to Silence Debate

David A. Graham

September 16, 2025

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The Attorney General’s Attack on Free Speech

Conor Friedersdorf

September 16, 2025

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The Dangerous Legal Strategy Coming for Our Books

Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

August 20, 2025

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Censorship for Citizenship

David A. Graham

July 14, 2025

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Are Liberals to Blame for the New McCarthyism?

June 11, 2025

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Shutting Down Salman Rushdie Is Not Going to Help

May 19, 2025

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The Godfather of the Woke Right

May 7, 2025

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Americans Don’t Do This

Caitlin Flanagan

April 29, 2025

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A Ticking Clock on American Freedom

Adrienne LaFrance

April 22, 2025

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Academia Needs to Stick Up for Itself

Nicholas B. Dirks

March 12, 2025

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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run

March 11, 2025

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The Free-Speech Phonies

David A. Graham

February 20, 2025

Intimidating Americans Will Not Work

Adrienne LaFrance

February 19, 2025

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What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok?

Alan Z. Rozenshtein

December 13, 2024

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Donald Trump’s Hatred of Free Speech

Adrienne LaFrance

November 4, 2024

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What Conservatives Mean by ‘Freedom of Speech’

October 3, 2024

Those Who Preach Free Speech Need to Practice It

April 30, 2024

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Free Speech Is Not Just for Conservatives

Conor Friedersdorf

April 3, 2023

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The State of Free Speech

Kelli María Korducki

November 30, 2022

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The Right to Free Speech Is Not the Right to Monologue

September 8, 2022

America’s Fire Sale: Get Some Free Speech While You Can

Caitlin Flanagan

August 23, 2022

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Why Freedom of Speech Is the Next Abortion Fight

August 22, 2022

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How to Fix the Bias Against Free Speech on Campus

Conor Friedersdorf

July 17, 2022

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The Real Chill on Campus

June 16, 2022

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What Do Twitter’s Users Actually Want?

Conor Friedersdorf

May 2, 2022

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Elon Musk Isn’t Buying Twitter to Defend Free Speech

April 27, 2022

The Elon Musk Placebo Effect

Kaitlyn Tiffany

April 26, 2022

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Elon Musk Is Fighting for Attention, Not Free Speech

April 14, 2022

The Threat to Free Speech, Beyond ‘Cancel Culture’

Conor Friedersdorf

March 23, 2022

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