On January 8, 2019, in a court decision that could double as the film treatment for a remake of National Lampoon’s Animal House, a New York judge upheld Syracuse University’s suspension of ten members of the Theta Tau fraternity who had taken…
Aiming to land a haymaker straight to the kisser of wanton indecency, a student group at the University of Notre Dame has called on university officials to institute a campus-wide Wi-Fi block on online porn. To make its case, the group,…
No one ever accused Saudi Arabia’s ruthless rulers of possessing a sense of humor. So it should arch nary an eyebrow that they object to an episode of the comedy series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj that’s critical of the kingdom’s notorious young…
The cheeky rebels at the Satanic Temple are on a First Amendment winning streak this holiday season, having scored victories in Illinois, Arkansas, and New York, to name just three. Founded in 2012 and based in Salem, Massachusetts, the Satanic Temple…
One of the best things about having Donald Trump in the White House is that you never have to guess when he’s angry. And he’s angry a lot. Take this past Sunday morning, when indulged in a presidential airing of…
Administrators at the Los Angeles Unified School District taught high school students at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools a valuable lesson. In institutional cowardice. In a December 11 story, Los Angeles Times education reporter Howard Blume recounts how the school district caved…
When the right and left of the political spectrum defend the First Amendment on identical grounds, free speech triumphs — even if neither side wants to share the glory after the fact. All of that came to pass with a…
The once fiercely transgressive social-media platform Tumblr has announced that it is hopping aboard the censorship express. In a statement posted to its staff blog on December 3, Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio warned that beginning December 17, the company will no longer allow…
The federal government has alleged that because I once co-owned a classified website, Backpage.com, I “facilitated prostitution” and then laundered money when I bought a home. This charge is based upon classified ads posted by our readers. The FBI arrested…
If you’re like most Americans, the holiday you most closely associate with the end of October is Halloween. Not so the purity-minded folks at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, who faithfully commemorate Pornography Awareness Week. And this year, the…
