With countries like France moving to ban all pro-Palestine protests, we can count ourselves lucky to live in a country with a more concrete commitment to free speech, even that which we find hateful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AP/AFP/Getty) Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, schools across America have been grappling with two great, related ...

For most of the past decade, many professors lived in fear of challenging progressive beliefs on elite college campuses, beliefs that, as linguist John McWhorter argues, have often attained religious ...

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When Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking in front of a crowd of college students on Sept. 10, something fundamental changed in our country. The conservative activist’s horrific murder, ...

Salman Rushdie’s 2012 memoir, Joseph Anton, closes as its author emerges in 2002 from years in hiding; he bids goodbye to members of the security detail that has guarded him since Ayatollah Khomeini’s ...

There are — for the moment — more than two million federal employees spread out across agencies and across the country. It should be an obvious, banal statement to say that they too enjoy the same ...