free speech

The Marketplace of Ideas Could Use a Few Product Recalls

It is with a heavy heart that New York’s Jonathan Chait must announce that the illiberal, anti-speech left is at it again.

Will The First Amendment Save The Kevin Johnson Pie Bandit?

Can pie throwing be considered a protected form of speech? Will Kevin Johnson be asked, for the first time ever, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about his seamy side, so help him God? Will Michelle Rhee get cross-examined—or even examined?

The Campus Free Speech Battle You're Not Seeing

Last September, Simona Sharoni, a professor of gender studies at SUNY Plattsburgh in upstate New York gave an interview to an online magazine in which she talked about the need to connect feminism and gender to the movement for Palestinian rights. The interview wasn’t out of the ordinary for Sharoni. She’s made her…