free speech

Annual college free speech rankings released

September 14, 2023 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The College Pulse and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) have released their annual college Free Speech Rankings. The 2024 College Free Speech Rankings are based on “the voices of over […]

MOORE: The Left is using science ‘consensus’ to shut down free speech in America

October 22, 2022 Stephen Moore

It was about eight to 10 years ago that the Left made a unilateral decision to shut down all opposition and any skepticism about climate change by pronouncing that the debate was over. The “scientific […]

MATTHEWS: The media attacks Joe Rogan because he refuses to bend the knee

February 9, 2022 Stacey Matthews

The mainstream media has whipped itself into a frenzy over the last several months trying to get podcaster Joe Rogan neutered or canceled, and the reason why is clear: He refuses to bow to outrage […]

HILL: Eternal hostility against tyranny over the mind at Duke University

February 2, 2022 Frank Hill

In 1903, history professor John Spencer Bassett at little Trinity College in Randolph County wrote an article in his South Atlantic Quarterly, “Stirring Up The Fires of Race Antipathy”. “Now (Booker T.) Washington is a […]

HILL: Will Dave Chappelle and Enes Kanter be on a second Mount Rushmore?

October 27, 2021 Frank Hill

Future historians may look back 200 years from now and target October 2021 as the time when comedian Dave Chappelle and pro basketball player Enes Kanter saved American free speech, freedom of thought and freedom […]

The 2021 campus free speech rankings are out. See where NC schools landed

October 7, 2021 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The latest campus free speech rankings are out and most of the North Carolina colleges included in the report are still earning positive marks. One state school, however, has slipped into the bottom […]

UNC Wilmington Board of Trustees member resigns, citing treatment of conservatives

September 24, 2021 A.P. Dillon

WILMINGTON — A University of North Carolina at Wilmington Board of Trustees member has resigned and his letter reveals issues with disparate treatment of conservatives on campus. Board of trustees member Woody White posted an […]

MILLER: While Cuba & the American Left crack down on dissent, GETTR values free speech

July 26, 2021 Jason Miller

One of the driving tenets of Communism is the absolute suppression of free speech. We’ve seen it around the world, and in recent days in Cuba, we’ve seen a spectacular and courageous revolt against it. […]

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Attorney General Josh Stein joins brief urging SCOTUS to let school districts ‘regulate’ off-campus speech

March 18, 2021 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has joined a brief which urges the U.S. Supreme Court to allow school districts to “regulate” student speech off campus when that speech has “substantial effects on […]

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SAINE and BRYSON: Facebook came to its senses about political advertising

March 10, 2021 State Rep. Jason Saine and Donald Bryson

Nonprofits and community groups across North Carolina had a communications lifeline restored last week when Facebook announced it was lifting its ban on political advertising, a ban put in place after the events of Jan. […]