Censorship

Civil Liberties

A Code Is Born

How Catholic crusaders and New Deal regulators created the most intrusive censorship regime in Hollywood history

Thomas Doherty | 12.4.2007 7:47 AM

Politics

Long-Arming the Libel Tourist

Jacob Sullum | 11.19.2007 6:12 PM

Civil Liberties

Let the Viewer Decide

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman on free speech, complexity, and the trouble with Michael Moore

Jesse Walker | 11.16.2007 3:21 PM

Policy

Wilhelm Reich: 50 Years in Hell and/or Heaven

Brian Doherty | 11.5.2007 12:08 PM

Politics

Supreme Court to Look at Child Porn

Brian Doherty | 10.30.2007 9:19 AM

Civil Liberties

What About Saw, the Video Game?

Jacob Sullum | 10.29.2007 4:15 PM

Politics

The People v. Joseph Frederick

Jacob Sullum | 10.22.2007 11:39 AM

Civil Liberties

Do You Need a New Rose?

Nick Gillespie | 10.18.2007 11:55 AM

Civil Liberties

The Second Coming of Chocolate Jesus and the Apparition of the Scratch-n-Sniff Virgin Mary

Nick Gillespie | 10.17.2007 8:06 AM

Politics

MoveOn.Org Lets Sen. Susan Collins be Sen. Susan Collins

Brian Doherty | 10.16.2007 10:09 AM

Politics

Pulped Nonfiction

Jacob Sullum | 10.15.2007 4:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Iowa Bans Erotic Corn Dogs

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.4.2007 9:22 AM

Civil Liberties

Books Really Are For Burning

Nick Gillespie | 9.6.2007 9:48 AM

Civil Liberties

Let Turkey Into the EU?

Brian Doherty | 8.20.2007 2:10 PM

Civil Liberties

My T-Shirt Went to Peterborough and All I Got Was an £80 Fine

Juliet Samuel | 8.15.2007 8:18 AM

Civil Liberties

Honored to Be Caught Looking at Porn

Jacob Sullum | 8.13.2007 12:16 PM

Civil Liberties

Work From Home! Look at Porn All Day!

Jacob Sullum | 8.10.2007 11:41 AM

Civil Liberties

Fairness Isn't Fair

Jonathan Blanks | 7.26.2007 4:20 PM

Culture

And How Are You, Mr. Wilson?

Jesse Walker | 7.26.2007 2:13 PM

Civil Liberties

Feeling the Angst? A Year in Jail Should Help.

Juliet Samuel | 7.19.2007 8:21 AM

Policy

Remembering the Gores and the PMRC

Nick Gillespie | 7.11.2007 4:03 PM

Policy

[Verboten Racial Slur], Please!

Jonathan Blanks | 7.10.2007 2:00 PM

Policy

Allah Says: Don't Tread on Me

Jacob Sullum | 7.10.2007 10:49 AM

Civil Liberties

Free the New Youth 4!

Brian Doherty | 7.2.2007 4:37 PM

Policy

Crimes of the Signs

Jacob Sullum | 7.2.2007 3:47 PM

Civil Liberties

The Gallup/Pat Boone Poll on TV Violence

Michael Moynihan | 6.27.2007 2:40 PM

Politics

Bong Hits and Ad Runs

Two Supreme Court cases show the perils of making excuses for censorship.

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2007 6:41 AM

Policy

Mellow Out or You Will Pay

Jesse Walker | 6.25.2007 10:42 AM

Civil Liberties

Banned for "Unremitting Bleakness"

Juliet Samuel | 6.20.2007 2:18 PM

Civil Liberties

Think of the Children

Juliet Samuel | 6.19.2007 1:38 PM

Civil Liberties

Get Thee Censored, Satan

Juliet Samuel | 6.19.2007 10:22 AM

Civil Liberties

Crackdown on Iranian Bloggers

Michael Moynihan | 6.7.2007 12:41 PM

Civil Liberties

Back to You, FCC

Jesse Walker | 6.5.2007 9:44 AM

Economics

Integers Want to Be Free!

Brian Doherty | 6.1.2007 12:22 PM

Politics

Let's All Go to the Lobbyists

The latest campaign finance reform aims to fix the reforms that came before

Jacob Sullum | 5.30.2007 6:26 AM

Civil Liberties

Chavez Does Elvis One Better, Shoots Out Entire TV Station

Brian Doherty | 5.18.2007 12:41 AM

Civil Liberties

Click on the Menu for Fair Housing Act Violations

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2007 12:09 PM

Civil Liberties

The Mystery of Violence

Expanded regulation of TV content faces insoluble practical and constitutional problems.

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2007 11:54 AM

Civil Liberties

Even Satellite Not Safe for Saucy Jocks

Brian Doherty | 5.15.2007 9:23 PM

Civil Liberties

Laws Against Advertising Intent to Discriminate: Who Do They Help?

Brian Doherty | 5.15.2007 5:26 PM

Civil Liberties

Indecency, Not Violence, Offends on TV (Caution: Nude Turtle Action Below)

Nick Gillespie | 5.11.2007 10:01 AM

Civil Liberties

Gillespie on Talk of the Nation Re: TV Violence, Today at 3.38PM ET

Nick Gillespie | 5.2.2007 2:42 PM

Civil Liberties

New Crackdown on Milblogging

Jesse Walker | 5.2.2007 2:40 PM

Civil Liberties

Why the FCC Violence Report Sucks in Depth

Nick Gillespie | 5.2.2007 9:14 AM

Civil Liberties

Censors for Free Speech

Jack Valenti's legacy

Jesse Walker | 5.1.2007 12:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Parents Adrift on an Angry Sea

The FCC's misbegotten report on video violence

Kerry Howley | 4.27.2007 3:18 PM

Civil Liberties

Jack Valenti, 1921-2007

Jesse Walker | 4.27.2007 2:23 PM