On college campuses, the new film No Safe Spaces explains, the First Amendment, intellectual freedom, and the very idea of free speech are under attack with threats, bans, and even violence. That threat has come to the attention of comedian Dave Chapelle, latest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Chappelle, 46,...
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Berkeley now mounts a war against free speech and natural gas. In California, just about everything is under threat these days. 

If the new Assange indictment is any indication, the commitment to freedom of the press may be changing under Trump.

Let us not forget the events of this tragedy and join the efforts of people across the world in commemoration.

President Trump announced plans for an executive order that would deny federal research funds to universities that do not support free speech.

Imagine a world in which the great majority has no respect for facts or for truth of any sort, where ideological convictions rule almost everyone’s understanding of the world, where truth has become an endangered rhetorical species on the brink of extinction.

Ortega tightens grip on power amid widespread rebellion.

“As the supper [in May 1939] progressed, I found myself revising my previous concept of [Franklin D. Roosevelt]... I had long admired him for his sagacious statesmanship. Hearing him in this informal atmosphere, I realized how much I had idealized him. He was as neither wise nor as proud as I had supposed him...
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The law has limits to changing hearts and minds.

Apparently, Thomas Jefferson wrote something that Facebook finds offensive.