Below is my column in the New York Post on the ruling against Nina Jankowicz in her defamation case. It turns out that calling opposing views defamation is no better than calling them disinformation. Here is the column: For free speech advocates, there are few images...
Jonathan Turley
Succession by Defenestration: How Biden’s Withdrawal Could Trigger a 25th Amendment Fight
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill on the withdrawal of President Joe Biden from the 2024 election. After weeks of Democrats and the media raising the alarm of his mental capacity, Biden finally gave up his public refusal to step aside. Harris will now be the nominee...
Elon Musk is Right: End the Online Censorship Racket
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill on the recent report of the House Judiciary Committee and the disclosure of yet another effort to silence opposing viewpoints by squeezing the revenue of individuals or groups, including Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. Here is the column: Few...
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Government: Rep. Goldman Insists that the Country is Safe in the Hands of Others
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, wrote “The President [of the Galaxy] in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real power whatsoever. […] His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.” This week,...
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The Art of Being Eternally Shocked: How the Press and Pundits are Again Mystified by the Obvious
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
No one would think of the Beltway as being a place of the naive innocents of our society. Washington is the only ecosystem composed entirely of apex predators. Yet, this week everyone seems to be eternally shocked by what has been obvious for years. The press and...
Poll: Only 28 Percent of the Public Has “High Confidence” in Higher Education
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
A new poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago (commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) shows that only 28% of Americans have a lot of trust in higher education. Academia has continued to alienate much of the country as an...
Can Democracy Survive the ‘Defenders of Democracy’?
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on the latest calls to protect democracy with distinctly undemocratic measures. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton insisted that the 2024 election was our D-Day, suggesting that voters would have to fight the GOP like the...
‘Disinformation Czar’ Jankowicz Returns as Head of New Project Before Election
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
Nina Jankowicz is back . . . with a vengeance. The former head of the infamous “Disinformation Governance Board” within the Department of Homeland Security is now heading a private disinformation group called the American Sunlight Project. With a close election...
‘Do Not Touch Me…I am a Faculty Member’: Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. She is only the latest faculty member to seek to prevent others...
NPR Editor Blasts the Public-Funded Company for Political Bias and Activism
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a scathing account from within National Public Radio (NPR), Senior Editor Uri Berliner blasted the company for open political bias and activism. Berliner, who says that he is liberal politically, wrote about how NPR went from a left-leaning media outlet to a...
Federal Judge Hits CDC Over Withholding Data on Adverse Vaccine Reports
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to resist disclosing information on claimed side effects and problems with its COVID-19 vaccines, including from healthcare workers. Due to a January order by U.S. District Judge Matthew...
‘#arrestme’: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed the growing anti-free speech movement in Scotland with the expanding criminalization of political and religious speech. The new Scottish law is a perfect nightmare for free speech, expanding the potential of a jail sentence for...
Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The House Formally Invites President Biden to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 30, 2024 | Featured Articles
House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer has sent a seven-page letter (below) to invite President Joe Biden to testify in the Republican impeachment inquiry. The letter is the latest, and best, reduction of the glaring contradictions in the President’s past...
Saving Democracy From Itself: The Democratic National Committee Moves To Block Third Party Candidates
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the New York Post on a reported plan of the Democratic National Committee and allied groups to try to block third-party candidates from the 2024 ballot. The contradiction is stunning as these groups raise money to “save democracy” by limiting...
Oh Canada: The Parliament Moves to Impose Potential Life Imprisonment for Speech Crimes
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed the unrelenting attacks by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his allies on free speech. There has been a steady criminalization of speech, including even jokes and religious speech, in Canada. Now, the...
MSNBC Legal Analyst: Free Speech Could Be America’s ‘Achilles Heel’
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the alarming shift in higher education in favor of censorship and speech regulations. These voices have been amplified on media platforms like MSNBC which has championed efforts to censor people and groups on social media and other forums. The...
The Eyes Have It: US Intelligence Allegedly Asked Foreign Countries to Surveil Trump Associates
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
There is a disturbing report published on Michael Shellenberger’s Public Substack detailing how the U.S. intelligence community called upon foreign governments to target associates of Donald Trump before the 2016 election. The request to the “Five Eyes”...
‘That is Not the Judgment of the Press’: The White House Calls the Media to Heel With Disinformation Campaign
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
“That is not the judgment of the press.” Those words from President Joe Biden were a telling moment after a reporter noted that there is widespread concern that he is mentally diminished. Biden’s cranky response was overshadowed by his confusion on other points during...
Why Burn Books When You Can Bury Them? The White House Pressured Amazon to Target Dissenting Books
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Monday revealed yet another facet of the Biden Administration’s sprawling censorship system that targeted dissenting books. It appears that, as with social media...
Wisconsin-Madison Under Fire Over Mandatory Anti-Racism Training
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is at the center of another controversy this week over its diversity training program. The mandatory diversity training at Wisconsin instructs students that “people of color” are incapable of being racist. That claim has long been...
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