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Brett Gadsden, a Black man in a dark blue suit, stands left next to Geoffrey R. Stone, an older white man in a gray suit. They are are in front of banners for PEN America and above their heads is a sign at the American Writers Museum reading "Mind of a Writer." of a
Posted inOn Culture

Flashpoints, free speech, and the law

by Deanna Isaacs May 25, 2022May 24, 2022

Last week, amid the usual tsunami of grim news about inflation, mass shootings, pandemic, and war, came word that the New York Court of Appeals is considering whether the Bronx Zoo is violating the rights of Happy, an Asian elephant who’s lived there for more than four decades, by confining her to a portion of […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Journalist Danny Fenster’s detainment shows we are living Fahrenheit 451

by Sam Weller June 15, 2021August 18, 2021

The Columbia College graduate has been held in Myanmar to the detriment of free speech everywhere.

Posted inNews & Politics

Objection!

by Maya Dukmasova January 29, 2020August 18, 2021

Who needs Facebook and Russian trolls when Illinois election laws sow plenty of bad faith?

Posted inColumns & Opinion

A professor’s article claiming Israel’s “moral right” to annex the West Bank has caused an uproar at DePaul

by Deanna Isaacs May 29, 2019August 18, 2021

To censure or not to censure? The university community is divided.

Posted inBlogs

The media is itching for a fight with Trump

by Michael Miner January 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Journalists preparing to enter the age of Trump are rolling up their sleeves.

Posted inBlogs

Thursday was actually a bad day for Trump

by Michael Miner July 22, 2016August 18, 2021

Millions of voting Americans—including hundreds of thousands in Chicago—come from those Eastern European countries Trump might not bother to defend

Posted inBlogs

Missouri Republicans jump at the chance to despise Melissa Click

by Michael Miner February 5, 2016August 18, 2021

Eric Zorn sticks up for Mizzou professor Melissa Click.

Posted inBlogs

The only American right we can’t afford to lose, according to the GOP

by Michael Miner December 17, 2015August 18, 2021

Republican presidential candidates seem to think that First Amendment rights might have to go—so thank God for the Second.

Posted inBlogs

When First Amendment rights collide

by Michael Miner December 2, 2015August 18, 2021

Reconsidering freedom of the press and freedom of assembly as Chicago protesters ask for “black-only” space.

Posted inBlogs

Who is a journalist, anyway? Mizzou raises the question.

by Michael Miner November 17, 2015August 18, 2021

Anyone can claim to be a journalist. But that’s OK.

Posted inBlogs

Let Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell write what she thinks about rape

by Michael Miner September 18, 2015August 18, 2021

Even if she’s wrong, let’s not muzzle Mary Mitchell—conversations change minds. Censorship doesn’t.

Posted inNews & Politics

Chicago police are spying on citizens

by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky March 18, 2015August 18, 2021

Authorities have conducted surveillance on activists in recent years but won’t say why.

Posted inBlogs

Freedom of speech, artistic license, snow, and the Sunday Trib

by Michael Miner February 2, 2015August 18, 2021

Arguing with the Sunday Chicago Tribune

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Full Frontal for a Cause

by Marissa Oberlander June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

The Indiana erotic dancers lost their Supreme Court case; this New York-based troupe scored a win with their uncensored version.

Posted inNews & Politics

A tough lesson about the N-word

by Steve Bogira January 23, 2013August 18, 2021

Should a Chicago Public Schools teacher have used “nigger” in a sixth-grade class?

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