Everybody into the Clubhouse!

1. Public opinion is not where it was in 2011. Thanks to the work of writers like Lara Bazelon, @jeanniesgersen, Scott Greenfield, KC Johnson, @LauraKipnis Stuart Taylor, Emily Yoffe, & many others, there’s awareness of Title IX overreach & abuse. 8/10

Tell your favorite lawyer who cares about #FreeSpeech that we are hiring! Jobs & Internships thefire.org/about-us/jobs-… via FIRE

VOTE! I do a monthly book award I call the Prestigious Award. It’s been a whole year & there are now 12 books that are fighting to the DEATH* for the 2021 EXCESSIVELY PRESTIGIOUS award! *Vote for which book is the best here: 1/14 thefire.org/news-and-media…

Are you sure you read the right article? bit.ly/2UI6n0T Maybe I'm misunderstanding. Do you think these laws ARE constitutional & good idea as applied to higher education? Or did you disagree that students & teachers should have a greater free-speech rights?

QUESTION: What writer, thinker or article best represents the arg "what happens on campus doesn't really matter in the 'real world'"?

Greg Lukianoff says "The US harboured a “Vegas campus delusion. What happens on campus will not stay on campus.” It has not. The SJW mindset is now evident in the media, the Democratic Party, businesses & schools. economist.com/briefing/2021/… from The Economist economist.com/briefing/2021/…

Houstonians! FIRE, Bonnie Kerrigan & I will be doing an open event in #Houston on October 5th bblemon RSVP to [email protected] if you’re interested! #freespeech

Friends in Houston, we have an open event Tuesday night starting at 5:30. We'd love to see you there. RSVP at [email protected]

You know, we made a movie way back in 2015 about what we called “outrage culture“ & it’s harmful effect on comedy: Watch Can We Take a Joke? | Prime Video amazon.com/Can-Take-Joke-…

The Mind of the Censor & the Eye of the Beholder by Bob Corn-Revere, one of the greatest living 1A litigators Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, is out on paperback this Thursday. For the occasion, we wrote about America’s most prolific & weirdest censor, Anthony Comstock. 1/5 thefire.org/the-mind-of-th…

Has the great John Cleese read Jonathan Haidt & my book Coddling of the American Mind!? amzn.to/3AyFZ9x That would certainly be an all-time career high point!

'They criticized the Chinese government. Emerson College punished them.' youtu.be/owcZ0PnYSSw via YouTube #FreeSpeech #EmersonCollege

Shouting down speakers is mob censorship (& I think you really know that, even if you like it in some cases) Part 14 of answers to arguments against #freespeech from Nadine Strossen & me. thefire.org/shouting-down-… via FIRE

Man FIRE TikTok US is really funny. Great work Nico Perrino & team. tiktok.com/@thefireorg/vi…

Great #Tiktok on Ira Glasser's (of MIGHTY IRA documentary fame) powerful image of censorship laws as being like using poison gas in WWI. Never forget the wind can eventually blow back at you. tiktok.com/@thefireorg/vi…

It was a passion project pursued by Nico Perrino, Chris Maltby & Aaron Reese of FIRE. I couldn't be prouder of it.

The transformation of #freespeech from an inspiring, even romantic democratic ideal into a bogeyman provoking hostility & suspicion is the product of a very intentional campaign originating on campus. FSM vs elitists. Elitists won. open.substack.com/pub/persuasion…

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