Ms. Nossel has worked for decades in defense of free speech and human rights. For those who have followed the furious debates over free speech for the past decade, hearing right-wing commentators laud ...

In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder, a fierce First Amendment debate over the concept of “hate speech” has taken center stage across the nation. Conservative lawmakers and ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi is not what you would call “subtle.” While Donald Trump was preparing to head off to Britain for a state visit, Bondi was busy trying to import one of that country’s worst ...

Recent threats by Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute "hate speech" and by Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr to penalize ABC affiliates over Jimmy Kimmel's comments have thrust the ...

George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, shakes his fist during his speech at Drake University, 1967. George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, shakes his fist ...

“Free speech is at the lowest ebb it has been in Britain since the eighteenth century,” the U.K. Free Speech Union’s founder and president Toby Young, recently ennobled, told me over lunch at the ...

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 ...

Les mottes sont des pistolets chargeis--words are loaded pistols. Jean Paul Sarte. The assassination of Charlie Kirk and two failed attempts on President Trump’s life have drawn renewed attention to a ...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the free speech debate is back in the national spotlight as Republicans and Democrats trade insults. It seems that everybody is missing that there has been ...

If you’re a believer in free speech, the past two weeks have been one of the longest years of your life. In fact, this might have been the worst fortnight for free expression in recent memory. This ...

Mr. Lukianoff is the president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. If you’re a free-speech lawyer, you face a choice: Either expect to be disappointed by people ...

ABC has taken Jimmy Kimmel off the air for making hateful comments about the recent murder of Charlie Kirk. Does that constitute an attack on free speech, as some of his supporters are alleging? No.