Steven Pinker: Can Harvard Be Saved?
The Harvard psychologist discusses recent gains for free speech at Harvard, growing political and ideological threats to academic freedom, and the importance of shared knowledge in sustaining truth and progress.
The Harvard psychologist discusses recent gains for free speech at Harvard, growing political and ideological threats to academic freedom, and the importance of shared knowledge in sustaining truth and progress.
The IGO Anti-Boycott Act would dramatically expand U.S. anti-boycott laws. The House quietly postponed a vote after running into unexpected Republican opposition.
Earlier this year, state Rep. Laurel Libby made a post criticizing trans women in women's sports. Her refusal to apologize has cost Libby her right to speak on the House floor and vote on legislation.
Campus protests against Israel have revived debates over the limits of First Amendment protections.
A U.S. district judge called Mohsen Mahdawi’s detention a “great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime.”
"It is unthinkable that a person in a free society could be snatched from the street, imprisoned, and threatened with deportation for expressing an opinion the government dislikes," says FIRE.
Congress just approved a new online censorship scheme under the auspices of thwarting revenge porn and AI-generated "nonconsensual intimate visual depictions."
The administration's lawyers claim that this was justified by Khalil's likelihood of escape.
Two of his targets are seeking permanent injunctions against the president's blatantly unconstitutional executive orders.
To remain independent, institutions of higher education should end their reliance on taxpayer money.
The president has launched a multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.
The administration's demands extend far beyond its avowed concern about antisemitism and enforcement of "civil rights laws."
The president's lawyers also conflate fraud with defamation, misconstrue the commercial speech doctrine, and assert that false speech is not constitutionally protected.
The boy and his mother are now suing the school district and its officials to protect students' right to free expression.
Support for suppressing "violent content" has also dropped.
The secretary of state, who aims to "liberate American speech," nevertheless wants to deport U.S. residents for expressing opinions that offend him.
Just a quarter of respondents said they favored deporting students for "expressing pro-Palestine views."
Apparently freezing $2 billion in federal funding wasn't enough.
Harvard's law faculty previously criticized the Obama administration's assault on norms of free speech and due process.
The bill risks "punishing parents simply for disagreeing with the state's preferred views on gender," Aaron Terr, a First Amendment attorney, tells Reason.
"I said now that they're banning it, I want to join, just because they're telling me I can't," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
The Associated Press’s legal victory highlights the limited power presidents and the press have over the creative destruction and spontaneous order of our language.
An immigration judge's decision reinforces the constitutional argument against the law that the secretary of state is invoking.
The pro-censorship post was quite the Freudian slip from the Trump administration.
Not all of the action on the shadow docket involves President Trump.
Even if Laredo cops punished Priscilla Villarreal for constitutionally protected speech, the appeals court says, they would be protected by qualified immunity.
The former editor in chief of the South China Morning Post discusses his book on Jimmy Lai, who is currently on trial in Hong Kong for having the audacity to stand up to the government.
"Universities were bending over for federal funds long before Trump," writes Laura Kipnis.
A new global survey reveals a stark decline in Americans' support for free speech as the Trump administration tightens its grip on expression.
The novelists join the podcast for a sharp, satirical dive into fiction, free speech, and the absurdity of modern culture.
The president seems optimistic. It's not clear why.
"Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works," said Jankowicz.
The state legalized medical marijuana but banned dispensary owners from advertising. Now, one owner is taking the fight to the Supreme Court.
Disney scaled back DEI policies this year. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr still opened an investigation.
The president is arguing in court that journalism he doesn't like is "election interference" that constitutes consumer fraud.
The detention of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk illustrates the startling breadth of the authority the secretary of state is invoking.
"We're looking every day for these lunatics that are tearing things up," Rubio said in a Thursday press conference.
The self-styled watchdog site ranks news outlets' reliability, which has rankled those on both the right and left.
Conservatives are picking up the unconstitutional weapons that intolerant progressives have deployed against them.
As a federal judge, Maryanne Trump Barry said the provision is unconstitutionally vague. That's especially problematic when it is used to punish speech.
The judge ruled that Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive orders targeting "gender ideology" can't change the fact that drag performance is expressive conduct under the First Amendment.
The Trump administration keeps arresting legal immigrants with views they don't like.
Border officials reportedly barred the academic from visiting Texas after finding anti-Trump messages on his phone.
The Trump administration has started a pattern of trying to deport legal residents over allegations of pro-terrorist views.
The attempt to retaliate against a cinema for screening a documentary on the Israel-Palestine conflict drew national condemnation from civil rights groups and filmmakers.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish emphasizes that religious freedom must protect "unpopular or unfamiliar religious groups" as well as "popular or familiar ones."
The rationale for deporting Mahmoud Khalil is chillingly vague and broad.
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