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The reduced rights of the public figure July 8, 2025
Walter E. Block
Here is a libertarian case to repeal libel laws.
NPR claims a First Amendment right to subsidized speech May 27, 2025
Andrea Widburg
Amazingly, it found lawyers to make this argument, apparently with a straight face.
Free speech on campus or not? May 21, 2025
Walter E. Block
Leftist media throw a fit to defend free speech when it suits their interests. The rest of the time...
In New Haven, it’s not free speech if you hurt someone’s feelings May 13, 2025
Andrea Widburg
A New Haven woman was criminally charged when she was wrongly identified as a woman who used a racial pejorative against a parking lot attendant.
Speech and self-defense are dead letters in England May 11, 2025
Andrea Widburg
What happens in England matters here because this is what the Democrat party wants for America.
Public School Gaslights Community after Disciplining Student for Conservative T-Shirt May 2, 2025
John Klar
She wasn’t disciplined, the school’s attorney insists. The school’s emails show otherwise.
How to remove unruly leftists from Republican town halls April 28, 2025
Noel S. Williams
When leftist agitators engage in atrocious behavior that warrants expulsion, let’s oblige them by entangling them in a net as twisted and knotted as their temperament; no point in a bunch of wasteful paperwork to arrest them and make them martyrs!
Hillary ‘the Russia Hoaxer’ Clinton wants to imprison people for ‘propaganda’ April 21, 2025
Andrea Widburg
Rumor has it that she graduated from law school, but I’m beginning to wonder whether that’s true.
Starmer Wants Trump’s Free Trade Deal—But Free Speech Comes First April 17, 2025
Bepi Pezzulli
Can Downing Street hear the American president over the din of its own regulations?
Harvard declares that it’s entitled to have taxpayer money subsidize its free speech *UPDATED* April 14, 2025
Andrea Widburg
What We the People say is, if we’re paying for it, it’s not free.
The newest hate crime in England: ‘Speak English’ *UPDATED* April 13, 2025
Andrea Widburg
In one of the great historical ironies, America is why the British don’t have free speech and are subject to this insanity.
Green Cards, Student Visas and Domestic Terrorists March 16, 2025
Susan Quinn
The left is trying to confuse things by painting Mahmoud Khalil as a persecuted free speech warrior. There’s nothing confusing. On the known facts, he should go.
Through Leftist Speech Control, America’s Terms Of Engagement Have Changed March 7, 2025
Allan J. Feifer
Through relentless government action and social pressure, America’s operating vocabulary has become Orwellian.
A deplorable implores Zuck to cede control of Meta February 26, 2025
Peter Merkl
The drastic about-face is a nice change, but we still can’t trust him.
The viral lie of how censorship is a ‘vaccine’ to freedom of speech February 24, 2025
Amil Imani
The notion that speech operates like a “virus” casts human expression as a disease—something to be feared and eradicated—is a very dangerous step toward tyranny.
EU’s Equality, Preparedness, and Crisis Management Commissioner says disinformation becoming a ‘pandemic’ January 28, 2025
Eric Utter
In that case, it is the mainstream media that is the Mother of All Virus Spreaders.
Reining in the porn industry January 15, 2025
Trey Dellinger
Twenty years ago, the porn industry succeeded in getting a more liberal Supreme Court to strike down a federal law requiring porn sites to keep kids out.
$10k fines (and other penalties) for failing to fly the ‘Pride’ flag December 2, 2024
Olivia Murray
A tiny town of just 1,300 people and no flagpole finds itself subject to a “quasi-judicial power” meting out “Orwellian” punishments.
The FCC is finally going after big tech censorship November 16, 2024
Andrea Widburg
We at American Thinker know something about it, for that censorship explains the ads you hate and the requests for subscriptions that you now receive.
Why the Cattle Cars Aren’t Being Built November 13, 2024
Robin M. Itzler
In 2024, Jews have two singular blessings: Christians who support Jews and Israel, and, in America, the right to free speech and open debate.
Let’s all thank alternative conservative media November 7, 2024
Matthew G. Andersson
There are many factors to acknowledge for our success on Tuesday; one of those factors is the quality of information and thinking, and the media that delivers it.
Trump is on to something when he brainstorms ending flag-burning October 28, 2024
Stu Tarlowe
Although he acknowledges that the Supreme Court has said it’s constitutional, the Supreme Court is probably wrong—but maybe there are ways around that error.
The Dems vs. Free Speech October 15, 2024
Rajan Laad
It would be a vast overstatement to suggest that the U.S. is the equivalent of a totalitarian state. But a long journey begins with one step, and the Harris-Biden administration has begun that journey.
Free Fuellmich, the Unsung Hero Who Called Out the ‘Plandemic’ September 30, 2024
Janet Levy
In Germany, Part II of the COVID takeover is playing out, as the government uses foul means to incarcerate a leader in the fight against COVID tyranny.
2024 Is 1800 All Over Again, Because Free Speech Is On The Ballot September 28, 2024
Vince Coyner
In the extraordinarily vicious political environment of 1800, free speech was on the ballot. Then, Americans made the right choice. Will they do so this time, too?
Like any good tyrant, Kamala wants the government to ban speech she dislikes September 5, 2024
Andrea Widburg
Whether speaking in 2019 or today, Kamala’s on record wanting to have the government determine what Americans may or may not say.
The UK’s Metropolitan Police threaten Elon Musk for online posts inciting “hate” August 9, 2024
Andrea Widburg
No one is safe from the Metropolitan Police, including American citizens in America.
To understand how extreme Walz’s leftism is, look at his take on the First Amendment August 8, 2024
Andrea Widburg
As is typical for all totalitarians, he wants to police “wrongthink” that challenges government power.
America: To bulldoze or not to bulldoze July 30, 2024
Ned Cosby
Our nation is our house, as surely as is the home in which you live, and we had better make the right decision when it comes to preserving or demolishing the structure.
The German Government Uses Anti-Nazi Laws To Crush Speech It Opposes July 24, 2024
Colin C. Cortbus
Ironically, in typical dictatorial fashion, the government has ignored the strong procedural safeguards built into those laws and summarily wiped out a publication.
The House Judiciary Committee reveals the leftist alliance to silence conservatives July 11, 2024
Andrea Widburg
If you’ve been wondering about the plethora of ads at American Thinker and the conservative media’s push for subscriptions, the House findings will explain it all.
Islamists and leftists celebrate Independence Day in NYC by burning the American flag July 5, 2024
Andrea Widburg
However, there is one flag in America that is sacred, and destroying it is a blasphemous act that will result in harsh penalties.
Nashville Council penalizes Morgan Wallen because it dislikes him and his speech May 25, 2024
Andrea Widburg
Tennessee may be a conservative state but, in Democrat-run Nashville, there’s no room for the First Amendment or the rule of law.
The House shouldn't have passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act May 3, 2024
Andrea Widburg
The government should never, ever be in the business of defining ideas.
JK Rowling has struck a blow for free speech in Scotland April 3, 2024
Andrea Widburg
The literary megastar took on the corrupt Scottish system, but as Democrats eat away at the First Amendment, the question is whether anyone of her stature will fight here.
Leftists are terrified of free speech because it truly is the voice of the people March 23, 2024
Andrea Widburg
In other words, leftists were never about the ‘little people’ being free. They were always about controlling the ‘little people’, and free speech makes that impossible.
College says praise of Hamas part of the 'free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives' October 14, 2023
Eric Utter
Swarthmore College joins Harvard in its coddling of anti-Semites.
Ireland is on the verge of enacting the most draconian anti-speech law in the West May 2, 2023
Andrea Widburg
The law is vague and overbroad, extends to being the unwitting recipient of “hate” speech, and holds that people are guilty until they prove themselves innocent.
BBC sports broadcaster suspended for violation of 'impartiality' guidelines in a social media post March 12, 2023
Rajan Laad
Thank goodness for the First Amendment in the states.
Brooklyn librarians lead fight to keep pornographic books in schools -- and promptly receive award January 8, 2023
Eric Utter
Why not just leave Hustler and Penthouse magazines around the school?
New conservative student newspaper at Univ. of Chicago, The Chicago Thinker, raises hackles among free speech opponents there January 30, 2021
Thomas Lifson
The students at the University of Chicago are reflecting the larger battle over free speech in the nation, but at one of the few remaining bastions of free expression in higher education.
The conservative free speech dilemma June 17, 2018
Joshua Broom
The left-controlled press is powerful and it's silencing conservatives. Conservatives can fight back only by resisting it.
Is the freedom to disrupt others’ speech a matter of free speech? September 16, 2017
Thomas Lifson
Campus progressives and their allies in the media and ACLU have worked themselves into a lather over a perfectly reasonable new policy of Ohio University aimed at guaranteeing the rights of both protestors and those who are at the university to learn
Majority of California Dems favor restrictions on free speech September 14, 2017
Thomas Lifson
California is a one-party state, with Democrats running everything.
Berkeley to offer counseling to snowflakes triggered by Shapiro visit September 10, 2017
Rick Moran
Without even uttering a word, Ben Shapiro is triggering Berkeley students.
In the pipeline: Campus free speech legislation February 5, 2017
Monica Showalter
U.C. Berkeley's rioters have done their worst to chill free speech in their violence on campus this week. They may have achieved the opposite of what they aimed for, however. A new proposal for free speech legislation is out now and sure to gain momentum.
There is no difference December 24, 2016
J.S. Anderson
Protecting free speech means recognizing and accepting that it comes from all sectors of our society.
Prosecuting free speech April 1, 2016
Jack Hellner
A.G. Lynch and several state A.G.s plan to sue "climate change deniers." Imagine what the left would say if government were threatening legal action against anyone who disagreed with the statement that human life begins at conception.
Free speech now seen as lobbying by New York State regulators February 2, 2016
Ned Barnett
New regulation stifling free speech could be applied to bloggers, as well as journalists, political consultants, and public relations advocates.
Donald Trump and freedom of speech: he's no champion January 23, 2016
Neo-neocon
The man some in the U.K. Parliament tried to ban for "hate speech" has judged others harshly for their exercise of free speech on Muslims.
The American Left and the Death of Political Discourse January 6, 2016
Steve McCann
Much has been made of the precipitous decline and near death of political discourse in the United States. Many attribute this to the coarsening of the language. However, this factor is but a symptom.
The Pea of Victimization Under Twenty Campus Mattresses December 1, 2015
Richard L. Cravatts
Campus totalitarians attempt to reeducate their racist peers
Free speech loses to Islamists at UK universities September 29, 2015
Johanna Markind
Two events last week crystallized the grave danger facing freedom of speech in the United Kingdom.
Talking Health Care at Gleason's Gym February 23, 2014
David Lawrence
"Let's not talk about it," my liberal boxing student says.
Silencing Speech on Islam May 4, 2013
Andrew E. Harrod
The German government acquiesces to limitations on freedom of expression. When have seen this before?
Free Speech Under Fire in Canada May 3, 2013
Pamela Geller
No matter what prism you see these events through, this is the Sharia. This is the imposition of the blasphemy laws under the Sharia
Harris Zafar's Islamic Intellectual Incoherence January 20, 2013
Andrew E. Harrod
Completely absent in Zafar's discussion is the historic understanding of free speech as a trial and error method of distinguishing truth from falsehood.
Free Speech: Either We Have it, or We Don't December 12, 2012
Mike Konrad
Our First Amendment is under assault from all sides -- left and right. It is high time that we realize that free speech is not merely for those with whom we agree; but primarily for those we detest.
"Choose Life" Out in North Carolina December 11, 2012
Selwyn Duke
The ACLU calls the ruling a victory for "free speech rights."
Fatal Attraction: US Flirts with International Speech Codes December 9, 2012
Nathaniel Sugarman
UN Special Rapporteur Mutama Ruteere has recommended that countries adopt "legislative measures" to cambat "racial hatred", specifically identifying the United States as a country that should consider legislation targeting internet hate speech.
When Feminists Criminalize "Sexist" Speech October 30, 2012
Selwyn Duke
brought In the same way that hate-speech laws are used as a hammer against Christians but not Muslims, how many "sexism" charges do you think will be brought against women?against women?