Category: free speech

‘Try to Cancel Me’: NBC Sports Broadcasting Legend Quits Job to Speak Truth to Power on Podcast

She was the crown jewel of NBC Sports television. A winner of Emmys and trailblazer for women in broadcasting, Michele Tafoya reached millions of viewers in living rooms across America—all from the sidelines on “Monday Night Football.” After nearly 30 years on the air, Tafoya left it all to start podcasting on Salem and speaking her…


The Warnings Unheeded Now Threaten Our Fundamental Freedoms

Commentary The First Amendment is at a critical juncture. Recent congressional hearings on the Twitter Files brought the matter into full public view. Freedom of speech and of the press are hanging by a precarious thread. Do we want a future in which information flows freely, or one in which an information elite controls those…


Are Censorship, Surveillance, and Propaganda Pillars of the New Regime?

No one was looking when the Global War on Terror turned into an assault on American liberty. U.S. spy agencies teamed up with Big Tech and the media to target free speech and undermine the very foundations of our constitutional republic. Now the United States is guided by the tyranny that the Founding Fathers and…


[PREMIERING NOW] Are Censorship, Surveillance, and Propaganda Pillars of the New Regime?

No one was looking when the Global War on Terror turned into an assault on American liberty. U.S. spy agencies teamed up with Big Tech and the media to target free speech and undermine the very foundations of our constitutional republic. Now the United States is guided by the tyranny that the Founding Fathers and…


[Premiering at 10AM ET] Are Censorship, Surveillance, and Propaganda Pillars of the New Regime?

No one was looking when the Global War on Terror turned into an assault on American liberty. U.S. spy agencies teamed up with Big Tech and the media to target free speech and undermine the very foundations of our constitutional republic. Now the United States is guided by the tyranny that the Founding Fathers and…


TikTok: America’s Do-Or-Die Moment With China

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary Adi Robertson, The Verge’s senior tech and policy editor, makes an impassioned plea to not ban TikTok, China’s popular video-sharing app, on free speech grounds. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), speaking on the floor of the Senate on March 29, also raised First Amendment objections to a proposed TikTok prohibition. Nonetheless, it is…


LIVE NOW: House Education Subcommittee Holds Hearing on ‘Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses’

The House Education Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Diversity of Thought: Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses” at 10:15 a.m. ET on March 29, with testimony from Cherise Trump, Josiah Joner, Suzanne Nossel, and Ilya Shapiro. …


House Education Subcommittee Holds Hearing on ‘Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses’

The House Education Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Diversity of Thought: Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses” at 10:15 a.m. ET on March 29, with testimony from Cherise Trump, Josiah Joner, Suzanne Nossel, and Ilya Shapiro. …


Michigan Professor Suspended After Suggesting Conservative Campus Speakers Should Be Killed

A university professor in Michigan has been placed on leave after declaring it would be “more admirable” to kill guest speakers who hold “transphobic,” “racist,” and “homophobic” views than to just shout them down. Steven Shaviro, who teaches film and media studies courses at Wayne State University, took to Facebook to express his thoughts about…


Recent Lowlights in the Woke Capture of Our Once-Venerable Institutions

Commentary Lamenting the astonishing success of the activist Left’s century-long Gramscian march through America’s major institutions is, at this juncture, old hat. Still, there have been a few recent powerful examples, coming in quick succession, illustrating the extent to which leading liberal institutions of civil society have been captured by far-left activist wokesters who take…