Free Speech & Media
The First Amendment's protections for speech and press, and what religious traditions teach about truth, accountability, and the dignity of dissent.
10 questions
- Section 230 and Social Media RegulationReligious traditions take seriously both the duty of truthfulness and the danger of suppressing dissent — the values at the heart of the Section 230 debate.
- Cancel Culture and AccountabilityReligious traditions support accountability and restoration over destruction — Christian gentleness in restoration, Jewish teshuvah , Islamic tawbah …
- Book Bans in SchoolsReligious traditions generally favor access to challenging texts — Jewish textual debate, Christian commitment to direct reading, Islamic "Iqra," Buddhist…
- FCC Pressure on Broadcast Licenses and Network SettlementsReligious traditions identify the systematic intimidation of truthful witness as the mark of corrupt authority.
- Conditioning University Research Funding on Speech PoliciesReligious traditions built universities precisely because they understood that truth requires protection from political coercion.
- Executive Order 14398: Barring DEI in Federal ContractsReligious traditions hold equal dignity and impartial treatment in genuine tension — and the people who think they have a clean answer to the DEI debate are…
- Mahmoud Khalil and Free Speech for Non-CitizensReligious traditions across the board treat the persecution of unpopular speakers — particularly strangers within the community — as a marker of unjust…
- Defunding Public Broadcasting: The End of CPBReligious traditions across the world have built educational and informational infrastructure for centuries, on the principle that accessible knowledge is a…
- The Prairieland Nine: Protest, Terrorism Charges, and NSPM-7Proportionate punishment and guilt by association: what scripture and the Constitution say about the Prairieland sentences and the NSPM-7 crackdown.
- Firing the Editors of Stars and StripesThe Pentagon's firing of Stars and Stripes journalists after critical reporting: what scripture says about truth-tellers before power and what the First Amendment protects.