Suzanne Nossel's book Dare to Speak argues that free speech should be defended for all, and that the erosion of support for ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers took to X on Monday to argue in a string of outraged posts that certain University-hosted events might be considered antisemitic under Harvard’s newly ...

As adjectives go, “Orwellian” tends to be prematurely invoked — and hyperbolically, if often in good faith. It warns of language being hijacked toward antithetical means and authoritarian ends. It’s ...