“If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek’s insight could be the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Trump...
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First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers
by James Bovard | Apr 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was wearing a hajib—is a Fulbright scholar working on a doctorate at Tufts University. She was abducted and vanished into the maw...
American Spring? Uphold Freedom of Speech on American Campuses
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Throughout my political career, I have steadfastly defended the First Amendment, particularly the right to free speech. In 2002, I delivered a speech entitled A Prayer for America, where I challenged the rationale of the PATRIOT Act and questioned actions that...
The Death of Free Speech in America?
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties. The US bipartisan unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli...
Cracking Down on US Colleges, for Israel
by Adam Dick | Mar 11, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States government does not need to give a dime to any college. But, if it does continue its funding of colleges, the First Amendment of the US Constitution bars that funding from being denied to a college because the college is determined to have...
Sacrificing Truth on Leviathan’s Altar
by James Bovard | Feb 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last Sunday, 60 Minutes featured tyrannical German prosecutors boasting about persecuting private citizens who made comments that officialdom disapproved. Three prosecutors explained how the government was entitled to launch pre-dawn raids and lock up...
‘Listen Carefully it’s Actually Much Darker’: How the Left is Framing Free Speech as a Front for Fascism
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
The defense of free speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, Germany, has led to open panic on the left in fighting to maintain European censorship and speech criminalization. The response of the American press and pundits was crushingly familiar. From CBS News...
Before Donald Trump Became a Free Speech Hero Regarding TiKTok, He was a Villain.
by Adam Dick | Jan 18, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Luckily for free speech and free press in America, Donald Trump, who is set to be sworn in as president on Monday, seems determined to ensure that the many millions of American TikTok users will be able to continue posting and watching videos at the popular social...
Musk Vs. Soros: Who’s The Real ‘Meddler’?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 8, 2025 | The Liberty Report
D.O.G.E.: End The Global Engagement Center!
by Ron Paul | Jan 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
In the book Crisis and Leviathan, libertarian thinker Robert Higgs pointed out that the state uses crises to ratchet up its power and control over citizens. With each new “crisis” – often directly or indirectly caused by the state itself - government grows and our...
New Censor Replacing Old Censor at Meta
by Adam Dick | Jan 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some people are optimistic that the promotion of Joel Kaplan to be Meta’s president of global affairs heralds the end of, or at least a big reduction in, censorship at Meta’s social media sites of Facebook and Instagram. This optimism springs from the fact that Kaplan...
A New Year’s Resolution: Let’s Get the United States Out of the Censorship Business
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
On this New Year’s Eve, billions of people will gather with friends to ring in 2025 with the hope of a better year to come. For the first time in many years, free-speech advocates have a reason to celebrate. With 2024, we will say goodbye to one of the most...
$267 Million Wasted In Fight Against ‘Misinformation’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 17, 2024 | The Liberty Report
Expelliarmus!: HBO Delivers Blow Against the Anti-Rowling, Anti-Free Speech Movement
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
This week, HBO delivered the corporate version of the Expelliarmus or disarming curse for the long-standing cancel campaign targeting “Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling. We have been discussing this campaign against Rowling, a feminist who has opposed transgender...
The Danger Is Real: The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
If the three-ring circus that is the looming presidential election proves anything, it is that the Deep State’s plot to destabilize the nation is working. The danger is real. Caught up in the heavily dramatized electoral showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala...
Cut the Truth Out of Our Heads
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Oct 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
The censors are losing patience. They have gone from regretting the existence of free speech and gaming the system as best they can to fantasizing about ending it through criminal penalties. You can observe this change in temperament – from frustration to fury...
Disinformation Isn’t the Problem. Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a perfect example of the Nanny State mindset at work, Hillary Clinton insists that the powers-that-be need “total control” in order to make the internet a safer place for users and protect us harm. Clinton is not alone in her distaste for unregulated,...
‘We Lose Total Control’: Clinton Continues Her Censorship Campaign on CNN
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
Hillary Clinton is continuing her global efforts to get countries, including the United States, to crackdown on opposing views. Clinton went on CNN to lament the continued resistance to censorship and to call upon Congress to limit free speech. In pushing her latest...
Hillary Calls For ‘Misinformation’ Spreaders To Be Jailed!
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 18, 2024 | The Liberty Report
Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Public trust in the government to “do what is right” understandably remains at an all-time low. After all, how do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the...
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