Newsletter
The Free Speech Project publishes a periodic newsletter, Free Speech Today, which features analysis on Free Speech issues and highlights the work of the project.
These essays, written by FSP researchers as well as outside contributors, underscore the wide variety of ways in which Free Speech conflicts present themselves.
Analysis
- Impulsive Censorship: Banning Words and Prescribing Expressions to Protect Us from Ourselves May 5, 2023
- A more perfect union: Free Speech and a growing labor movement December 1, 2022
- Book Bans Don’t Surprise Me. That’s Why They Must Stop. August 22, 2022
- The Collateral Damage of Free Speech: America’s Mass Shooting Epidemic and the First Amendment June 27, 2022
- Do College Athletes Have a Free Speech Right to Control Use of Their Own Name, Image, and Likeness? May 18, 2022
- Classroom Gag Orders: Protecting Tender Feelings or Denying Realities? February 9, 2022
- The Spectacle of Post-Trump America: The Aestheticization of Politics March 14, 2021
- Speech and Sedition: The Violent End to A Presidency of Inflammatory Speech February 19, 2021
- No One Platform Should Have All That Power: The Ascendancy of Social Media and the Struggles of Independent Publications December 8, 2020
- Net Neutrality in the Age of Trump: Why Americans Must Reclaim the Internet October 4, 2020
- The International Olympic Committee Must Foster Free Speech on the Global Stage August 31, 2020
- Trump vs. Free Speech on the Internet: Death by 10,000 Duck Bites July 24, 2020
- Why ‘Nonviolent Tension’ Is Necessary For Change June 26, 2020
- Sharing Is Caring? Tracking State Adoption of ALEC’s Campus Free Speech Legislation May 27, 2020
- Pregnancy, Panties, and Periods: TV Networks Are Censoring an Essential Reality April 10, 2020
- Artificially Speaking: The Intersection of Free Speech and AI December 30, 2019
- Guns and Gags: How the Military Can Unduly Curb the Free Speech Rights of Soldiers November 17, 2019
- Local Journalism Is Dying. That’s Bad for Communities — And for Free Speech. October 14, 2019
- Censorship Is in Session: The Free Speech Rights of America’s Educators September 14, 2019
- An Unconventional Answer to Our Tribalism: More Speech Chambers December 9, 2018
- The Bassett Affair: Duke University’s Early Encounter With Free Speech and Racism October 21, 2018
- When the Newsroom Becomes a War Zone October 5, 2018
- Did You Miss ‘Secrets and Leaks’? We’ve Got You Covered. October 4, 2018
- Political Canvassing: Door-to-Door Free Speech September 7, 2018
- Whose Air Time? On False Equivalency and Disproportionality September 7, 2018
- A Grim Anniversary: Still Learning From Charlottesville August 20, 2018
- How Twitter’s Toxicity Can Jeopardize Civil Discourse August 2, 2018
- Feeding the Tracker: From the Banal to the Bizarre, the Absurd to the Frightening August 2, 2018
- School’s Out, and So Is Free Speech at High School Graduation Ceremonies July 20, 2018
- What’s in a Shirt? Supreme Court Declares Political Attire Harmless at the Voting Booth July 1, 2018
- When Rap Lyrics and Free Speech Collide July 1, 2018
- A Quiet Crisis: Censorship Strikes the Student Press June 20, 2018
- Laws Banning ‘Fake News’: A Growing International Trend? June 1, 2018
- State Legislatures, Trying to ‘Fix’ Free Speech Woes, Are Making Them Worse June 1, 2018