I remember my great uncle on the farms of Illinois who loved to say, “When one person calls you a horse’s ass, don’t worry. When three people do, go out and buy a saddle.” As a president, you multiply ...

And how we get it back. Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January ...

In the early 20th century, American anthropologist Franz Boas argued that being free just means being fully in harmony with ...

A Supreme Court decision saying a school district could not punish a student for profane complaints made on a weekend and off school grounds will not stem the torrent of crude, disrespectful speech in ...

What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

On July 23, AEI hosted a two-panel event examining the contentious online speech landscape following a consequential Supreme Court term. The second panel, moderated by AEI’s Shane Tews, analyzed the ...

Last week, the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT were called before Congress to address antisemitism on campus. During five hours of testimony, their studied hypocrisy triggered a bipartisan ...

Fifty-five percent of college students say they find it difficult to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on campus—more than double the 26 percent who said as much last year, before the start of ...

There’s a reason I call freedom of speech "the eternally radical idea." After all, what do you call an idea that has a clear track record of promoting innovation, human flourishing, prosperity, and ...

EDITORIAL: Threats to free speech today across the West, particularly related to Christian truths revealed by faith and discovered by science, underscore the vulnerability of the Catholic Church today ...

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...