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Sarah McLaughlin

Director, Targeted Advocacy, FIRE

@sarahemclaugh on X

Sarah McLaughlin is a senior scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the author of Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech.

Latest from Sarah McLaughlin

Elise Stefanik and the cover of her book "Poisoned Ivies" | Illustration: BONNIE CASH/UPI/Newscom/Elise Stefanik/Threshold Editions

Free Speech

In Poisoned Ivies, Stefanik Sees Censorship as a Cure for 'Anti-Americanism'

What is a greater rejection of America's founding ideals than an overreaching government trampling the First Amendment?

Sarah McLaughlin | 4.16.2026 10:00 AM

Free Speech

"Authoritarians in the Academy": The Present, and Future, of Authoritarian Censorship on Campus

Sarah McLaughlin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.12.2025 8:01 AM

Free Speech

"Authoritarians in the Academy": Feeling the Chill on Canada's Campuses

Sarah McLaughlin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.11.2025 2:06 PM

Free Speech

"Authoritarians in the Academy": The National Security Law and the Shuttering of Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

Sarah McLaughlin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.11.2025 8:01 AM

Free Speech

"Authoritarians in the Academy": Satellite Campuses and the Perils of Local Law

Sarah McLaughlin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.9.2025 8:01 AM

Free Speech

"Authoritarians in the Academy": The Free Speech Recession

When universities are global institutions, the global speech environment matters.

Sarah McLaughlin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.8.2025 8:01 AM

A student appears in front of CCP soldiers and the entrance to GWU's campus | Illustration: Lex Villena; Estudiomaia, Paul Mckinnon

Free Speech

'A Pretty Scary Moment': Dissident Chinese Students Say George Washington University Is Failing Them

The CCP’s tyranny extends even to U.S. college campuses, where Chinese and Taiwanese students fear censorship.

Sarah McLaughlin | 11.11.2022 10:00 AM

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