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A Few Comments on This Week’s Free Speech Events [EDITED]
Main Saturday, December 09, 2023A Few Comments on This Week's Free Speech Events [EDITED][I've made a couple of edits, partly in light of ongoing events.]"A few" mostly because Howard has…
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Penn abandons the First Amendment (Updated)
Main Wednesday, December 06, 2023Penn abandons the First Amendment (Updated)Lee Kovarsky and Eugene Volokh offer great defenses of the presidents' answers at Tuesday's hearing, reaching similar conclusions to me in…
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Oxes, goring, etc.
Main Saturday, December 02, 2023Oxes, goring, etc.One important argument for protecting speech you find offensive rests on the impossibility of laying down a principled standard to separate speech and speakers…
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More campus speech
Main Wednesday, November 15, 2023More campus speechThree private universities--Brandeis, Columbia, George Washington--have suspended campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and/or Jewish Voices for Peace. Columbia and GW said…
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Sorkin on free speech
Main Sunday, November 12, 2023Sorkin on free speechI have written about my change of heart regarding Aaron Sorkin--loved The American President, Sports Night, and West Wing at the time, now…
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With great speech comes great responsibility
Main Thursday, November 09, 2023With great speech comes great responsibilityInteresting statement from University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos on an important consequence of the Chicago Principles of campus expression: The…
Simple Justice
The Wrong “Sacred” Rights
In an excellent column, David French provides a sound and easily understood description of three areas of law at particular issue on campus in the current iteration of the culture…
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More on campus speech
Main Wednesday, November 01, 2023More on campus speechFirst, Neil Buchanan offers a different take on the limited options (beyond moral suasion) available to universities.Second, the ACLU joined FIRE in criticizing…
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Self-Proclaimed “D-List” Comedian Subjects Self to Personal Jurisdiction by Tagging a Tennessee-Based Company in a Tweet, Holds Sixth Circuit
In Johnson v. Griffin, No. 23-5257 (6th Cir. Oct. 31, 2023), the Sixth Circuit holds that by targeting an individual living in Tennessee in a Twitter campaign to get them…
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Nazis without antisemitism?
Main Thursday, October 26, 2023Nazis without antisemitism?In the Star Trek episode Patterns of Force (included in most lists of top-1o Original Recipe episodes), Kirk and Spock encounter a planet with…