Speech Codes

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

A new book  authored by by First Amendment Expert Greg Lukianoff  and Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt  is set to be released July 17, 2018. A…

6 years ago

Christopher Hitchens on Free Speech: To whom are you going to award the job of being the censor?

Excerpted from University of Toronto debate “Freedom of Speech includes the Freedom to Hate” held November 2006. "To whom do you…

6 years ago

FIRE files lawsuit on behalf of Illinois student detained by police for ‘Shut Down Capitalism’ flyers

Photo: Student Ivette Salazar was detained by campus police for passing out flyers critical of capitalism. By FIRE January 11, 2018…

6 years ago

FIRE’s 2017 year in review for student and faculty rights on campus

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28, 2017 — From students shouting down an invited speaker and injuring a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont to the violent Berkeley…

6 years ago

Report: Campus speech codes decline for 10th straight year

One in three colleges surveyed maintain severely restrictive speech policies, but 90 percent of top colleges maintain policies that stifle…

6 years ago

Free Speech & Free Speech Zones on Campus: DOJ files statement of interest in FIRE lawsuit

Kevin Shaw on the campus of Pierce College (Dawn Bowery/FIRE) WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2017 — The Department of Justice on…

7 years ago