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This post builds on a previous one about gender and tolerance, so I recommend starting there if you haven’t already read it.
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In search of a better understanding of what drives people to support free speech, I’ve looked at th...
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This is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.
The most important decisions about our lives can turn on factors ranging from unfair to downright absurd. In medieval England, a criminal facing the gallows...
Congressman Robert Garcia answers a question from a resident during a town hall meetings in Long Beach, California, on Aug. 23, 2023 (Shutterstock).
Chloe Ratner is a political science major at Yale University. Last summer, she worked at t...
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For nearly four decades, students in America’s public schools have experienced a straightjacketed version of the First Amendment.
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That’s due to the Supreme Court’s Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier decision. School admini...
America 250 celebration in Middletown, Virginia (Creative Commons).
“We’re proud to join the revolutionary struggle that is core to our country’s founding and all humanity’s dignity. It remains revolutionary two and a half centuries later,...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression A nonpartisan non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the mission of protecting freedom of speech in the United States.
Sarah is Senior Scholar, Global Expression at FIRE and author of Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech
Head of news at FIRE, editor-in-chief of Expression, author of The Radicalist, analyst at Washington Policy Center. Former Asia correspondent, war correspondent, financial editor, and professor of logic. Fired from Seattle Times for attacking Lenin.
Co-founder and co-editor of the Penn Heretic. All views expressed are my own.
Experimental social psychologist studying higher education, focusing on topics including political bias, free speech, scientific integrity, and ideological diversity.
Director of Public Advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
Buckeye in Northern Virginia. Director of Multimedia. Runner, cinephile, and wannabe Lincoln scholar. Letterboxd: atmacqueen
New York City-based writer, musician, and artist. Managing Editor of The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff. Senior Writer & Editor at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Board Chair at Fair for All. More at AngelEduardo.com.
I love music, nature, and liberty. I live in Kentucky with my husband and children.
John is a legislative counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Opinions are my own.
Digital editor at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
I write about free speech issues in tech and telecom for FIRE, as well as some other things from time to time. I try to gather a good bit of that here.
Political Science @ Yale
Student Press Counsel for FIRE. I write about student press rights and a smorgasbord of other stuff. Opinions are my own. Author of Square Stage, a blog about breaking out of the performance of perfect. Because life's a stage, not a cage.
Legislative and Policy Director for FIRE
I'm a board member and former chairman of FIRE, a retired techie with a particular interest in free expression in local institutions -- school boards, community colleges, city and county government, and member-run nonprofits.
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