Tag: freedom of speech

Where Stands the Ministry of Truth?

Commentary A recent federal court ruling has many people questioning whether the First Amendment, and its protection of our bedrock freedom of speech, has been extinguished in our country. I want to help clarify the status of this epic, high-profile case that is currently trending in the media… Missouri v. Biden, which I mentioned briefly in my…


Judge Hands Biden Admin Grave News | Facts Matter

In a major win for the freedom of speech, a federal judge slapped the White House with a historic injunction Tuesday—one that has never been seen before in the history of the United States. Specifically, in the 155-page decision (which was issued, on July 4), the judge blocked officials within the Biden administration and a…


EXCLUSIVE: Harassment, Death Threats Against Web Designer Surge Since Supreme Court Decision Upholding Freedom of Speech

Lorie Smith, the Colorado website designer at the heart of the Supreme Court’s landmark 303 Creative v. Elenis June 30 decision upholding every American’s freedom of speech, is receiving a barrage of increasingly intense harassment, including serious death threats, following the 6–3 ruling. “Especially in the last week, despite the victory last week, I do continue…


CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life

Commentary Keeping up with the corruption of the COVID regime feels like drinking from a firehose. The volume of the fraud, the pace of new discoveries, and the breadth of the operations are overwhelming. This makes it imperative for groups like Brownstone Institute to digest the onslaught of information and communicate salient themes and dispositive…


We Don’t Like What You Say or How You Say It

Commentary An exercise physiologist at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Michael Joyner, has been admonished by the Clinic in part for having suggested in public that testosterone gives transgender women a lasting and unfair advantage when they compete in sports against ordinary women. He has been threatened with dismissal if he doesn’t desist from making such…


New Government Free-Speech Tsar Warns ‘Democracy Is at Stake’

A new government-backed freedom of speech champion for universities has warned that “democracy is at stake.” The appointment of Cambridge lecturer Professor Arif Ahmed as the Office for Students (OfS) director for freedom of speech and academic freedom comes in the wake of heated student protests over feminist Kathleen Stock’s talk at Oxford University. The…


Totalitarian Temptations Among Progressive Elites

Commentary During a mid-May CBS morning show, host Nate Burleson asked former U.S. President Barack Obama if there’s anything about the country that still keeps him up at night. Obama said: “The thing that I’m most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a…


Florida Book Store Fights Jacksonville Law Forcing Use of Customers’ Preferred Pronouns

A Catholic bookstore owner is battling her Florida city in federal court over a local ordinance requiring the use of others’ “preferred pronouns” in her store, something she believes is a violation of her constitutional rights. Christie DeTrude owns and operates the Queen of Angels Catholic Store in Jacksonville. She wants her business to serve…


IN-DEPTH: Democrats Push for Ban on ‘Conversion Therapy’ for Michigan Minors

The right of minors to obtain therapy to help free them from unwanted same-sex attraction and gender confusion is under attack by the new Democrat majorities in the Michigan House and Senate. A package of bills outlawing conversion therapy for those under 18 years of age was introduced on May 18. Modern “conversion” therapy encompasses…


Radio Host Jailed for Sedition in Hong Kong Finds a Home and Freedom in Canada

Edmund Wan, recently released from a Hong Kong prison, says he feels at ease in Vancouver. He described the sense of familiarity that struck him in a Hong Kong-style café on Vancouver’s Cambie Street—the smell of baked pork chops on rice, the background noise of people joking in Cantonese. But there was something else that…