Expression
FIRE, Sarah McLaughlin, David Josef Volodzko, Chapin Lenthall-Cleary, Jacob Gaba, Graham Piro, Jacob Mchangama, Kevin Ray, Greg Harold Greubel, John Coleman, Matthew Harwood, Isabelle Brito, Brynn Lintner, Tyler CowardThe stories that shape free speech in America, brought to you by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
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Pepperdine banned a professor who taught about a black Jesus
Christ the Redeemer overlooks Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Donatas Dabravolskas / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pepperdine University professor Christina Littlefield won’t be teaching this fall.
Not because Pepperdine says she is unqualifi...
Was Frederick Douglass a free speech absolutist?
Frederick Douglass with his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass (right), and her sister Eva Pitts, c. 1880. (National Park Service / Wikimedia Commons)
This is the first in a series on Frederick Douglass’ free speech philosophy, originally p...
The Biden-era Title IX rule was already dead. Now it’s off the books.
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Yesterday, the Department of Education formally repealed the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulations and restored the 2020 rule promulgated during the first Trump administration. The repeal does...
Censorship has no place in the people’s house
Press Secretary Ron Nessen briefs the White House press corps on Nov. 6, 1974.
This essay was originally published by The Dispatch on Sept. 28, 2026.
When President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, he promised to “restore...
‘Civil terrorism’ is a dangerous category error
Pro-Palestinian protest in front of Amsterdam central train station Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Oct. 13, 2024 (Shutterstock).
This piece originally appeared at The Dispatch on Sept. 25, 2026. To read the counterpoint by , “To protect legiti...
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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.
Staff Attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) – Opinions my own
First Amendment Advocate at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and a founding editor of Cinemantics.
CEO of The Future of Free Speech, research professor at Vanderbilt University. Senior Fellow at FIRE. Author of "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media", host of the podcast "Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech".
Theater Director, Independent Producer and Teaching Artist, creating new work in collaboration with actors & designers. Kevin’s productions include Unearthly Visitants, The Machine Stops and We.
Greg Harold Greubel is a First Amendment litigator at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) who writes about law, philosophy, and society.
John is a legislative counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Opinions are my own.
VP of Comms at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Isabelle Brito is FIRE’s Off-Campus Mobilization Program Officer, where she works to empower individuals across the country to protect and defend free speech from small-town city halls to Congress.
Strategic Campaigns Associate at FIRE
Lead Counsel, Government Affairs at FIRE
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