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Europe, Listen to Vance’s Warning March 28, 2025

To prevent German citizens from fleeing the workers’ paradise in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the communists built a so-called ‘Anti-Fascist Protection Wall’, known more widely as the Berlin Wall....

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The EU Wants To Censor the Global Internet March 25, 2025

The Trump White House is right to oppose the Digital Services Act....

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Trump Must Consider a Stronger Lithuanian Partnership March 20, 2025

As a first-generation American of Lithuanian descent, I have a strong connection to this Baltic country. My parents fled Lithuania in 1985, then under Soviet control, and arrived in America in 1986 for a shot at the American dream.Like millions of fa...

‘Please Cry for Me, Palestina, . . .’ March 17, 2025

Islamists and their fanbase are truly without irony. The same people chanting for Khalil’s release, on the basis of “free speech,” are the ones who tore down posters of Israelis and Americans who were taken hostage by Hamas. ...

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Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Is a Free-Speech Issue March 17, 2025

The first months of the second Trump term have been marked by such a blizzard of activity, that it is rare when a story cuts through and captures public opinion for more than 24 hours....

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Congress Should Pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act March 17, 2025

Much ink has already been spilled on the antisemitism crisis plaguing the United States. As the new Trump administration seeks to crack down on antisemitism on university campuses, Congress should finally pass legislation which treats the subject wit...

Europeans Must Stand for Free Speech March 14, 2025

European elites are furiously angry about President Donald Trump’s rapid shift away from the traditional transatlantic relationship. Rebuilding their countries’ militaries will be one way to prove that the relationship remains valuable to the United ...

Free Speech Wobbles in the U.K. March 13, 2025

Britain’s draconian speech laws come with jail time for housewives and pensioners who post the wrong opinions on social media ...

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Europe Wants to be the World’s Speech Police March 03, 2025

The greatest threat to Europe isn’t China, Russia, or some other external actor; it’s “the retreat of Europe from… fundamental values” like the freedom of speech.That was Vice President Vance’s warning to European leaders at the 2025 Munich Security ...

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Europe’s Muzzling the Voice of the People February 26, 2025

The fight Vice President JD Vance recently picked with our European allies concerned much more than free speech. ...

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Dave Rubin Presents RCP's Samizdat Prize February 22, 2025

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The Nazis Did Not ‘Weaponize’ Free Speech. They Crushed It. February 21, 2025

There seems to be an outbreak of historical ignorance among TV talking heads. MSNBC’s Ali Velshi denounced Queen Elizabeth II for the British practice of slavery, even though the British Empire abolished it a century before her birth. Tucker Carlson ...

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Vance's Historic Defense of Free Speech in Europe February 18, 2025

In “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” J.D. Vance wrote, “I don’t believe in epiphanies. I don’t believe in transformative moments, as transformation is harder than a moment.” ...

J.D. Vance

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No, Free Speech Did Not Cause the Holocaust February 17, 2025

On both sides of the Atlantic, the liberal elites’ reaction to JD Vance’s bruising speech at the Munich Security Conference, in which the US vice-president took Europe’s leaders to task for their abandonment of free speech, has been nothing short of ...

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Salman Rushdie Faces His Alleged Attacker February 12, 2025

Is the man who tried to murder the novelist a lone wolf or an agent of Iran? Jay Solomon reports from the trial of Hadi Matar....

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The Pentagon Push for Media Fairness February 11, 2025

Yet again, the Trump administration has found a way to outrage the left....

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Censorship Fog Descends on Europe, World Cut Off January 10, 2025

A performative fury erupted across Europe when the dread Elon Musk not only endorsed Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), but agreed to host an extended interview on X with its party leader Alice Weidel....

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Revenge of the Euro-Elites January 09, 2025

EU leaders are cracking down on dissent like never before....

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The Global Engagement Center Lives on Through Rebranding January 07, 2025

The Global Engagement Center was defunded, only to reemerge under a new name—proof that bureaucracy rarely dies, it just rebrands. ...

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The Global Winds of Censorship December 11, 2024

From Barbados to Australia, governments, NGOs and corporations are bulldozing free speech....

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Smashing the “Censorship Cartel” December 10, 2024

As we have mentioned before, this publication was targeted by censors in the middle of Covid. Our offending post was just a link to Nature saying that masks weren’t really very effective at stopping the virus. (This is true by the way.) Nature is abo...

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The EU Is Beset by Pesky Notions of Free Speech December 09, 2024

On a sunny day this past summer, I was strolling through Karlsruhe, a provincial German town where Germany’s Constitutional Court sits, when I happened upon a peaceful demonstration demanding freedom of the press....

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The True Meaning of Free Speech November 21, 2024

Right after Donald Trump’s landslide, I opined on YouTube that this turning point could sound the death knell for Woke World – an observation that decayed to hoary cliché within hours. I also supposed that Trump’s triumph might signal to the UK that ...

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Leader of French Greens Wants to ‘Regulate or Ban’ X November 20, 2024

According to Tondelier, the social network website, which she has regularly used herself, should be “regulated or shut down”....

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Don’t Blame the Police for UK's Free Speech Laws November 19, 2024

The shocking police doorstepping of Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson last week has rightly sparked grave concern about the parlous state of freedom of speech in Britain. Sir Keir Starmer has now joined the leader of the opposition Kemi Badenoch in...

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