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It’s Your Right to Get a Face Tattoo
Unless you’re in South Carolina.
Suzy Weiss
Meet the Literature Professor Fired for Teaching Literature
Vinita Prabhakar assigned a prize-winning Ottessa Moshfegh story to her freshman English class, the way she had for years. Then the college president…
Josh Code
GiveSendGo Is a Home for the Canceled. Is It Incentivizing Hate?
GiveSendGo will back causes deemed too controversial for GoFundMe. But how far is too far?
Novi Zhukovsky
How to Make a Racist a Free-Speech Martyr
Shiloh Hendrix went viral when she screamed the N-word on a playground. Now she’s been convicted of disorderly conduct, despite her awful actions being…
River Page
The Trump Administration’s Latest Attack on Free Speech
By issuing subpoenas to Times reporters and their families, this administration has once again shown it never really cared about the First Amendment.
Eli Lake
A Letter to the Free-Speech Hypocrite Who Ran PEN America
The organization, founded to defend writers and free expression, published testimony from silenced Jewish and Israeli writers. Its president quit in…
William Kolbrener
Not Even Trump Could Ruin Bill Maher’s Night
The comedian won the Mark Twain Prize last night because, like every recipient, he’s not afraid of pissing everyone off.
Kat Rosenfield
I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life. Plus . . .
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Jonathan Rosen on monsters and monstrous ideas. Jed Rubenfeld on the Supreme Court’s landmark asylum ruling. And much more.
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I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life.
The world’s largest encyclopedia was overrun by bias and censorship—and pushed me out when I tried to fix it.
Larry Sanger
This Week in Canada: MAID Hits a Mental-Illness Snag
Free speech officially collides with hate speech, a stink at the Calgary Stampede, trees have rights too, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
The Return of the Roast, with Jeff Ross
Why do we love being mean to each other?
Suzy Weiss
Britain, Don’t Ban Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur
The Hamas apologists blamed Israel for the UK’s decision to deny them entry. It’s an absurd complaint—but Britain is making a mistake.
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