Free Speech

Civil Liberties

In Defense of Geert Wilders

Everyone deserves the freedom to offend

Michael Moynihan | 3.27.2008 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Nonsense of Indecency

The words you can never say on TV, except when you can

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2008 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Virginia is for Pasties

Nick Gillespie | 3.17.2008 7:32 AM

Civil Liberties

He's Really Just Sick the of the Kelly Holcomb Jokes

Radley Balko | 3.10.2008 9:06 PM

Civil Liberties

Put Down the Book and Step Away From Your Co-Workers

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2008 11:39 AM

Civil Liberties

Once the Cat's Out of the Bag, Should Cloning It Be Prohibited?

Jacob Sullum | 3.4.2008 4:49 PM

Civil Liberties

…When You Pry My Sondheim Libretto From My Cold, Dead Hands…

Nick Gillespie | 2.22.2008 8:51 AM

Civil Liberties

Read the Website a Judge 'Shut Down'

Jacob Sullum | 2.20.2008 10:33 AM

Civil Liberties

Today's Vagina Dialogue

Nick Gillespie | 2.14.2008 2:44 PM

Civil Liberties

What's All This I Hear About Freedom of Speech?

Jacob Sullum | 2.13.2008 11:53 AM

Civil Liberties

Mandatory Niceness

Canada's human rights commissions fight discrimination through censorship.

Jacob Sullum | 2.13.2008 7:23 AM

Civil Liberties

Brits Gag Athletes From Badmouthing China

Radley Balko | 2.10.2008 9:20 AM

Civil Liberties

An Obvious Opening for Cracks About Cleavage

Jacob Sullum | 2.6.2008 2:20 PM

Policy

What Does a $1.43 Million Breach of America's Collective Decency Look Like?

Radley Balko | 1.28.2008 11:41 AM

Politics

50-50 Support for the First Amendment at the FEC

Jacob Sullum | 1.25.2008 11:45 AM

Civil Liberties

Meet the New Theocrats

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2008 1:06 PM

Politics

SpeechNow Holds Its Peace

Jacob Sullum | 1.22.2008 4:47 PM

Politics

Foot Tapping and Hand Waving As Free Speech

Jacob Sullum | 1.17.2008 11:27 AM

Politics

Some Notes of Possible Relevance to Some Recent Unpleasantness Regarding Tolerance and Libertarians

Brian Doherty | 1.17.2008 2:59 AM

Civil Liberties

Yelling in the Visitors Gallery in Congress = Night in Jail

Brian Doherty | 1.10.2008 3:39 PM

Civil Liberties

Frankenstein Meets Thomas Edison

Jesse Walker | 12.28.2007 1:57 PM

Politics

The Right to Shout 'Boycott' in a Crowded Shopping Mall

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2007 1:05 PM

Civil Liberties

Flunking Free Speech

The persistent threat to liberty on college campuses

Michael Moynihan | 12.24.2007 1:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Rating the Ratings Systems

Nick Gillespie | 12.12.2007 8:13 AM

Politics

Ad Lib

A pro-free speech group seeks permission to speak freely

Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2007 6:59 AM

Politics

Does Free Association Limit Free Speech?

Jacob Sullum | 11.30.2007 1:05 PM

Policy

A Curious Kind of Democracy

Radley Balko | 11.27.2007 11:43 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

Politics

Americans: Sheep to the Constitutional Slaughter?

An Interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano

Brian Doherty | 11.15.2007 12:02 PM

Civil Liberties

Note To Artists on College Campuses: Don't Be Controversial or Insensitive, Especially Unintentionally

Nick Gillespie | 11.7.2007 10:40 AM

Politics

John Edwards vs. the Lobbyists

A presidential candidate promises to clean up Washington--by trashing the First Amendment

David Weigel | 11.5.2007 12:20 PM

Policy

Wilhelm Reich: 50 Years in Hell and/or Heaven

Brian Doherty | 11.5.2007 12:08 PM

Politics

The People v. Joseph Frederick

Jacob Sullum | 10.22.2007 11:39 AM

Politics

Bong Hits 4 Hollywood

Jesse Walker | 10.22.2007 10:50 AM

Policy

More AlternaWeekly Blues

Radley Balko | 10.19.2007 3:25 PM

Policy

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Wants to Know What Websites You've Visited

Radley Balko | 10.19.2007 10:42 AM

Civil Liberties

Ronery Reading

Jesse Walker | 10.19.2007 10:16 AM

Policy

Banning Guns (and Opinions About Guns) in College

Brian Doherty | 10.11.2007 9:22 AM

Civil Liberties

The War on Jerk-Off Radio Personalities Comes Home

Nick Gillespie | 10.3.2007 11:59 AM

Civil Liberties

Free Speech and Freedom of the Text

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.3.2007 11:52 AM

Politics

Libertarian Activist Paul Jacob Indicted

Brian Doherty | 10.2.2007 2:17 PM

Civil Liberties

Revisiting the Danish Cartoon Crisis

An interview with newspaper editor Flemming Rose

Michael Moynihan | 10.1.2007 12:30 PM

Civil Liberties

"Don't Tell Me About Sex, I Was Married to an Italian"

Jesse Walker | 9.26.2007 10:07 AM

Policy

Who's Afraid of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

After all the trembling, the Iranian president got a bruising instead of a boost.

Jesse Walker | 9.25.2007 1:02 PM

Civil Liberties

Saving Janet's Nipple

Radley Balko | 9.24.2007 8:22 AM