This Jewish professor was baited (off campus) by a pro-Hamas demonstrator who then yelled “Hate crime, hate crime” until Tempe police arrived. He was not arrested, but he was physically banned from the ASU campus by its President Michael Crow. […]
Free speech is in a free fall as millions embrace censorship as a political cause, including some now running for federal office on a pledge to silence others. One of the most alarming aspects of this period has been the emergence of a type of triumvirate of censorship, an alliance of government, academic, and media corporations. […]
In “The Indispensable Right,” I discuss how academics are now leading an anti-free speech movement on campuses that challenges the centrality (or even the necessity) of free speech protections in higher education. The latest such argument appeared this month in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Two Arizona State University professors — Richard […]
As many of you know, I have written about free speech and constitutional rights for decades in law reviews and journals. In that sense, this book has been thirty years in the making in offering a single, comprehensive treatment of a right that Justice Brandeis called “indispensable. […]
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