Freedom of Speech

The Global Chinese Anaconda Rana Siu Inboden, May 12, 2025 Scholar Perry Link famously referred to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the “anaconda in the chandelier” whose omnipresent monitoring meant that the Chinese people often…

During his historic comeback campaign in 2024, President Trump vowed to close the book on a dark chapter in America’s constitutional history: the weaponization of America’s own government to silence, censor, and suppress the free speech of…

In a shadowy city hall basement meeting last July, city officials in a southern Illinois college town swiftly and quietly repealed their controversial “no-speech zone” ordinance, a city law intended to silence pro-life advocates. While the…

A Beautiful China – Eighteen – Four Years Afar Xu Zhiyong, translated by Andréa Worden, December 4, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a…

The effort to shut down a mainstream conservative conference in Brussels last week shows partisan censorship is a serious and mounting problem in the West. Although the attempted cancellation failed—thanks to a legal challenge supported by…

A Beautiful China – Six – The Mission of a Law Practitioner Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, April 2, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a…

Donald Trump’s Truth Social, which the former president founded after he was banned from several online platforms in 2021, went public this week and has been valued at a whopping $8 billion. Here is everything we know about Truth Social and…

Following Monday’s Supreme Court oral argument in the social media censorship case Murthy v. Missouri, outraged free-speech advocates rightfully excoriated Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson for worrying that the First Amendment will “hamstring…

A Year On: Remembering Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the Truth-Teller Who Saved Lives Hermann Aubié, March 12, 2024 Photo: Creative Commons One year ago today, on March 11, 2023, the world lost a remarkable figure: Dr Jiang Yanyong (蒋彦永), a Chinese…

Thirty years ago, the incendiary columnist Sam Francis coined the term “anarcho-tyranny” to describe a state of affairs in which the government cannot or will not enforce laws against serious criminals and instead exerts excessive and often…