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Facebook’s Fact-Checkers Changed the Way I See Tech—and Speech—Forever
I thought I was sharing an important story on Covid’s origins. How naive I was.
Margi Conklin
Ban Masking Now
Anti-masking laws worked against the KKK. They’ll work against today’s criminals and bigots, too.
Ilya Shapiro
Kemi Badenoch: How Liberalism Got Hacked
The new leader of Britain’s Tories says that ideologues have smuggled authoritarianism into the West. She has a plan to fix it.
Kemi Badenoch
The Guardian’s Retreat from the Battlefield of Ideas
The newspaper says it is leaving X because of misinformation, but it is guilty of the same tactics it claims to oppose. I should know—I was once a…
Andrew Doyle
Anti-Israel Professor’s Firing Sets ‘Very Dangerous Precedent’
I don’t agree with Maura Finkelstein. But the Muhlenberg College professor is entitled to share her views on social media, writes Peter Savodnik.
Peter Savodnik
Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors
To small thinkers, free speech is a wilderness of potential threats. Thankfully, America wasn’t founded by small thinkers.
Matt Taibbi
Porn Professor Canned by University of Wisconsin
Joe Gow maintains he has a First Amendment right to produce pornography in his spare time. In a 17–0 vote, the Board of Regents disagreed.
Olivia Reingold
My French Teacher Was Beloved for 25 Years. Then She Was Asked About Hijabs.
Spence—a $65,000-per-year Manhattan private school—claims that ‘true education means learning how to honor differences.’ They lied.
M.J. Koch
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