"Free speech makes you safer. Free speech cures violence. Free speech protects the powerless. And even 'bad' people can have good ideas." My talk from April at TED Talks 2025 in Vancouver is live!

I don't really understand scented beard conditioners. You know that's going on your face under your nose, right? "But it smells good." It's like living in an apartment and buying the neighbor's kid a drum kit for their 10th birthday. Does it matter if they're good?

I got asked to do this segment for ABC News without a lot of context and it turns out I was there to discuss the Coldplay Kiss Cam Kanoodlers! abcnews.go.com/US/video/conce… (I am on vacation, so please forgive the lack of a collared shirt!)

It’s great to see us acknowledged for our dogged commitment to nonpartisan free speech defense, but this is who we’ve always been. And you won't find a group of more principled & talented people than what we have at @theFIREorg. I could not be prouder of them.

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I believe in a culture of free speech, one where our first instinct in response to speech we dislike isn’t to find a way to censor it — or “cancel” the speaker — but to meet it with more speech. I believe we should defeat bad ideas with better ideas. I believe in the power of

THIS a thousand times from FIRE's Adam Goldstein via my colleague Mark Keierleber's piece about Charlie Kirk’s killing ... and the possible chill to campus speech The 74 the74million.org/article/charli… #1A

Free speech advocates expect hypocrisy. But right now it's happening at an industrial scale. My FIRE colleague Greg Lukianoff is in today's The New York Times on the sad state of affairs.

By Samuel Abrams, Adam Goldstein, & me! Is Higher Education even interested in reform? eternallyradicalidea.com/p/is-higher-ed…

Pentagon’s press badge policy unites journalists by offending the Constitution thefire.org/news/pentagons… via FIRE by Adam Goldstein