America’s youth increasingly embrace physical violence in response to statements that challenge their views or otherwise distress them, according to a recently conducted study by the Brookings Institution. Left-wing thought leaders routinely call for speech to be regulated, and they tend…
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell This is an age of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The notion of free speech is an illusion….
President Donald Trump recently issued a new executive order directing federal agencies to see that U.S. colleges and universities receiving government grants protect free speech rights on campus. The action will be welcome by defenders of the First Amendment. But…
Washington During a week when President Donald Trump should have been beating his chest nonstop to celebrate the strong U.S. economy, he instead chose to flog his enemies, dead and alive, on Twitter and on camera. On Wednesday, Trump bashed…
Colleges and universities that limit freedom of speech are about to get clobbered big time. President Trump came out swinging on Saturday against the higher education establishment for violating our nation’s most fundamental value: free expression, guaranteed in the Constitution’s…
The president of a state university here in Houston stormed into a classroom where a conservative state lawmaker was attempting to give a speech Monday and shut the event down. Now Gov. Greg Abbott needs to shut him down. No…
