We get the world we praise and support. If you honor and reward a behavior, you get more of it. If you don’t support what you need more of, you get less of it. If after reading RealClear’s holiday ...

One particular element of that conversation promises to be particularly fraught: calls to punish “hate speech.” After Kirk’s killing, Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened to “target” and “go after” ...

At this year’s Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a clarion call that should resonate on ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

Cancellations, sometimes violent protests, behind-the-scenes censorship, and overt government threats to muzzle the media. Free speech is doing better in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world, but that ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

In President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, March 4, he bragged about restoring “free speech” to the United States. “I’ve stopped all government censorship and ...

In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as ...

In 2026, the United States will celebrate its 250th anniversary. We will commemorate a republic built on an extraordinary premise: that free citizens can govern themselves through argument rather than ...

The Harvard Salient, the lone conservative outlet on one of the most liberal of campuses, was suspended from publication after language echoing a Hitler speech appeared in an article. The bigger story ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...