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Voice of America Needs to Be Fixed, Not Silenced
Trump’s shutdown delights dictators and punishes people who deserve access to the truth.
Ethan Dodd
This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to Give
We have gotten to a place where even a basic defense of intellectual freedom is now considered ‘too political’ for a government institution.
Ryan Holiday
Exclusive: Doctor Fired for Trans Surgery Comments Receives $1.6 Million Settlement
Allan Josephson faced career destruction after criticizing gender-affirming care for minors. Years later, he sees a cultural tide turning—and legal…
Josh Code
Welcome to This Week in Canada, from The Free Press
How did Pierre Poilievre lose a 20-point lead? Trucker organizers face 10 years in prison. Antisemitism at McGill University. And much more from the…
Rupa Subramanya
How Covid Lies Destroyed Kids’ Lives
We were told school closures were based on evidence—and were for our own good. Five years later, millions of children are still paying the price.
David Zweig
Mom Who Sued School for DEI Records Told They’re ‘a Trade Secret’
A Pennsylvania school refused to divulge its curriculum on the grounds of confidentiality. Then a mother fought the district in a state appellate court.
Frannie Block
Will the Truth Survive Artificial Intelligence? Our Next Live Debate!
Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity and Fei-Fei Li face off against Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Carr on May 15 in San Francisco.
Isaac Grafstein
Fight Club: Should Mahmoud Khalil Be Deported?
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour says the Columbia student’s deportation is just and necessary. Eli Lake believes it sets a dangerous precedent for free speech.
Eli Lake and Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Grandma Arrested by Scotland’s Speech Police
Rose Docherty, 74, was handcuffed and taken into custody last month for violating Britain’s censorship laws. She tells The Free Press: ‘I’m an elderly…
Madeleine Kearns
How Western Judges Became Chinese State Puppets
Judges from the UK and Australia sit on Hong Kong’s highest court to supposedly help it uphold the law. But, in fact, they’re ‘giving legitimacy’ to a…
Frannie Block
I Can Explain Why the Nazi Salute Is Back
When Steve Bannon gives a stiff-armed salute after a speech about American greatness, we are watching an oppositional culture so addicted to opposition…
Richard Hanania
The Nazis Did Not ‘Weaponize’ Free Speech. They Crushed It.
On CBS, our era’s historical ignorance hits a new low.
Andrew Roberts
Bari Weiss: Against the Vandals
What happened on the left over the past decade is a cautionary tale for a right that wants to look away from the danger ahead.
Bari Weiss
WATCH: The Free Press Returns to Congress
‘The Orwellian Big Brother punishing you for expressing an impolitic thought is now the law of the land in the land of Orwell.’
The Editors
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Salman Rushdie Faces His Alleged Attacker
Is the man suspected of attempting to murder the novelist a lone wolf or an agent of Iran? Jay Solomon reports from the trial of Hadi Matar.
Jay Solomon
Deporting ‘Pro-Jihadist’ Students: Censorship or Good Governance?
Ilya Shapiro and Robert Shibley debate Trump’s executive orders on antisemitism.
Ilya Shapiro and Robert Shibley
Facebook’s Fact-Checkers Changed the Way I See Tech—and Speech—Forever
I thought I was sharing an important story on Covid’s origins. How naive I was.
Margi Conklin
Ban Masking Now
Anti-masking laws worked against the KKK. They’ll work against today’s criminals and bigots, too.
Ilya Shapiro
Kemi Badenoch: How Liberalism Got Hacked
The new leader of Britain’s Tories says that ideologues have smuggled authoritarianism into the West. She has a plan to fix it.
Kemi Badenoch
The Guardian’s Retreat from the Battlefield of Ideas
The newspaper says it is leaving X because of misinformation, but it is guilty of the same tactics it claims to oppose. I should know—I was once a…
Andrew Doyle
Anti-Israel Professor’s Firing Sets ‘Very Dangerous Precedent’
I don’t agree with Maura Finkelstein. But the Muhlenberg College professor is entitled to share her views on social media, writes Peter Savodnik.
Peter Savodnik
Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors
To small thinkers, free speech is a wilderness of potential threats. Thankfully, America wasn’t founded by small thinkers.
Matt Taibbi
Porn Professor Canned by University of Wisconsin
Joe Gow maintains he has a First Amendment right to produce pornography in his spare time. In a 17–0 vote, the Board of Regents disagreed.
Olivia Reingold
My French Teacher Was Beloved for 25 Years. Then She Was Asked About Hijabs.
Spence—a $65,000-per-year Manhattan private school—claims that ‘true education means learning how to honor differences.’ They lied.
M.J. Koch
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