What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is an event without precedent in at least a generation. Political assassinations are, unfortunately, not altogether uncommon in American ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

Free speech is a bulwark of open societies, because it allows ideas and information to be shared, authority to be questioned, and abuses of power exposed. In "On Liberty" (1859), John Stuart Mill gave ...

American officials are waging a multifront attack on Europe’s approach to free speech. This month, a congressional delegation traveled to Dublin, Brussels, and London to probe and decry European ...

I created a Facebook account recently. No one was more surprised than myself. From my book, "The Indispensable Right," to my past columns, I have been one of the most vocal critics of Facebook and ...