I confess to not having given much thought to the historical origins of free speech before reading Fara Dabhoiwala’s ...

Cancellations, sometimes violent protests, behind-the-scenes censorship, and overt government threats to muzzle the media. Free speech is doing better in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world, but that ...

Readers respond to a guest essay by a student at Harvard. Also: Our phone choices; falling behind China on energy.

Free speech advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world gathered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the Global Free Speech Summit. There was disagreement among some speakers over the ...

I am a free-speech absolutist. My conviction has only grown stronger over the last decade, even as the idea appears to have fallen out of favor on the left and right. To echo the famous line often ...

Conservatives are champions of free speech — and they shouldn’t lose sight of that fact. When woke leftists wielded institutional power and squelched campus free speech, the right defended students’ ...

Free speech is a privilege that many of us hold dear. But as machines become increasingly capable of generating words, ideas and arguments, should this fundamental right be extended to them too? This ...

When he reentered the White House in January, President Donald Trump insisted that protecting free speech was one of his key missions. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order ...

In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assissination, a fierce First Amendment debate over the concept of hate speech has taken center stage across the nation. Conservative lawmakers and ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

The recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk prompted celebration from many people on social media, suggesting a large subculture that rejects the values of free speech. Free speech ...