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Not so long ago we went to politicians for politics and comedians for comedy. Today, like many others, I watch politicians for amusement and listen to comedians for their political [...]

I'm just coming to the end of a four-week speaking tour Down Under and have spotted some worrying signs of what our new government might have in store for us, [...]

Hardly a day goes by without another story of academics clamping down on free speech. Dons at Buckingham University are the latest to express outrage at a proposed 'heterodox' (i.e. [...]

Take a short scroll through Twitter or Facebook and you're bombarded with information. In just five minutes you can view, comment on and share the latest headlines, political opinions, cultural [...]

James Delingpole and I had a blazing row on our weekly podcast on Monday. We were discussing the recent departure of Mark Steyn from GB News following a bust-up over [...]

SOMETHING IS BROKEN in our politics. Just about everyone knows it, but it can be hard to put your finger on what it is. As the media attempt to grapple [...]

As a defender of free speech, I'm used to taking up the cudgels on behalf of unsavoury people. To quote Lord Justice Sedley in a famous High Court judgment in [...]

AFFIRMATIVE Don't Use the Law to Compel Conformity LIBERTARIANS GENERALLY TAKE a live-and-let-live approach, advocating freedom of association over anti-discrimination mandates. Moreover, a key aspect of libertarian policy is a [...]

Tattoo artists Tom and Elizabeth Preston jumped through every regulatory hoop that the city of Tempe, Arizona, placed in their way. The couple filed the necessary paperwork for opening a [...]

Despite our oft-stated aspirations to be nations of laws, not of men, I've always thought it clearer to see Britain and America as bodies politic, not legal communities. In the [...]

'Shut up,' he explained. --Ring Lardner What socialism implies above all is keeping account of everything. --V. I. Lenin Regular readers, absorbing the title of this special section, may wonder [...]

Will Boris Johnson legislate to protect Holocaust denial on university campuses? Labour's shadow equalities minister Charlotte Nichols raised the question in the Commons last week, after the universities minister suggested [...]

Monday wasn't the best day for the government to launch Online Harms, its white paper on internet regulation. As Sajid Javid was proudly proclaiming that Britain would have the toughest [...]

How hard is it for women to talk freely about sex, gender and the law? Not very, I used to think. I'd heard about a few no-platforming incidents on campuses, [...]

IN JANUARY, THE New York Times reported that free speech had suffered a setback when Netflix restricted access to an episode of a comedy act at the request of the [...]

* The Democrats have been working overtime to gut the First Amendment. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the presumptive Democratic front-runner for the 2016 presidential nomination, has endorsed this effort. The Democrats [...]

'There. I said it.' That phrase, and the attitude it strikes, says something pretty specific. It doesn't just say: here's what I think. It says: 'Here's what I think, and, [...]

In California, sponsors of Assembly Bill 2943 describe it as an act to amend sections of the civil code 'relating to unlawful business practices.' Buried in the list of dozens [...]

Rick Scott, the Republican governor of Florida, signed into law a higher-education bill including free-speech protections based on model legislation from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The free-speech [...]

The Democrats are fighting a two-front war against free speech: In the states, Democratic attorneys general are launching investigations of global-warming skeptics; in the U.S. Capitol, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) [...]

THE BLOCKBUSTER summer movie Straight Outta Compton borrowed its name from a groundbreaking 1988 album from N.W.A.--the first gangsta rap record to go huge. The original Straight Outta Compton featured [...]

CAN A country that claims to have free speech and a right to bear arms forbid communications about how to make a gun? Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed, along with [...]

There's a free speech crisis in America, but it's not the one you're thinking of. On 20 January, a few miles from Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC, more [...]

[New York Senator Schumer:] 'I called Governor [X] and I said, 'Who is the best candidate?' And he said, 'Only one person can beat [Senator Y] but you wouldn't want [...]

WASHINGTON (March 8)--The U.S. Senate will spend the second half of March in a wide-open debate on the McCain-Feingold 'campaign finance reform' bill, which is strongly opposed by NRLC and [...]

WASHINGTON (June 9)- It now appears that supporters of the Shays-Meehan 'campaign reform' bill (HR 417) may fail in their campaign to force the House of Representatives to vote on [...]

NRLC sent the following letter, opposing the Shays-Meehan 'campaign reforms' bill (HR 417), to members of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 24, 1999. Dear Member of Congress: We [...]

During the radical street theater in Cleveland, one demonstrator got a bit too liberal with the lighter fluid while attempting to burn an American flag and ended up setting his [...]

'FUCKYOUR SHITTYTOWN BITCHES,' Willian Barboza wrote across the payment form he mailed to the town of Liberty, New York, after receiving a speeding ticket in 2012. For good measure, the [...]

In the summer of 2012, much of it the reporting on the politics of The Supreme Court focused on the electoral ramifications of the high court's decision on the Affordable [...]

SINCE NOVEMBER, advertisements featuring the face of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have been wrapped around several city buses roaming the streets and avenues of Washington, D.C. The [...]

Last week I went to hear Jung Chang and Jon Halliday talk about their new biography of Mao Tse-tung at a lecture in memory of the Great Helmsman of Moderation, [...]

How often does it happen that the Supreme Court of the United states, the Department of Justice, the attorneys general of all fifty states, the Legal Defense and Education Fund [...]

PROHIBITORY speech codes have been thrown out by the courts in Michigan and Wisconsin; nevertheless, some three hundred colleges and universities have adopted roughly similar codes. They usually proscribe not [...]