Free speech

New York’s new mayor is woke. The Ugandan-born Muslim leftist Zohran Mamdani imperils the city as we know it, some people grumble. In a recent letter to supporters, Republican Representative Nancy Mace warned that Mamdani was “a man who’s bringing SHARIA LAW to America.” Of course, Sharia and woke are not the same thing. Mamdani’s program, brimming with paeans to trans and gay rights, might not thrill a Wahhabi cleric. Still, he has brought a Middle Eastern flavor, and not in the good sense. During the campaign Mamdani promised to arrest Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu should he decide to visit the United Nations. That hair-raising prospect would expose Mamdani to

The resignations over the weekend of two of the BBC’s highest executives are major victories for the President

The Supreme Court is leaning toward upholding the right of therapists to advise clients that changing their sexual orientation is viable 

An American cancer patient was visited by British police over a comment on social media

The Attorney General is mistaken to think that ‘hate speech’ isn’t free speech

Charlie Kirk died as a passionate believer in free speech

Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to turn the birthplace of liberty into its charnel house

British officialdom’s zeal for online regulation is setting it on a collision course with a resurgent and energetic US free-speech lobby

Pornography is undergoing a serious reevaluation