Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. All year we’ve bandied about phrases like “civil discourse, ...

Forces ranging from campus police, to state troopers, to national lawmakers are targeting faculty and student expression—particularly expression supporting Palestinians. This was the scene two weeks ...

College campuses have long been hotbeds of censorious conduct, according to a major free speech advocacy group, but the turmoil of 2023 may mark a turning point. "The situation for free speech on ...

In a commencement ceremony at a Catholic university, the justice said that fundamental principles were in peril at universities and American society. By Adam Liptak Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned ...

In the years since free speech and academic freedom experts Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman published their book Free Speech on Campus, which explained the importance of free speech at colleges ...

Freedom of speech means people in the United States can express ideas without unnecessary government interference. This ...

Freedom of speech means people in the United States can express ideas without unnecessary government interference. This ...

Clashes on university campuses, and administrators’ failures when dealing with them, have triggered actions by some governments meant to limit what universities and their students can say and do. By ...

Banning cigarette advertisements outright would violate freedom of speech. But maybe there is a workaround called compelled speech? Can the government compel graphic package warnings with the same ...

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 foreign university students since January 2025. Many of the individual cases that have made headlines center on foreign-born ...