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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...