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I myself was charged with defamation—indeed criminal defamation—for exercising my own freedom of speech to criticize a judge for an opinion she wrote. This certainly made me appreciate our First Amendment. Here is the story:

I have been defamed on numerous occasions

and may not be barred from speaking or publishing because those in control of government think that what is said or written is unwise

a defamation must also be untrue. This wasn’t always the case

it must also cast him in a negative light. That used to be easier to define than it is today. For example

I get calls and emails demanding that I sue them for defaming the Jewish people or committing a “blood libel.” But under our First Amendment only an individual can be defamed. There is no such thing as group libel. In other words you can sa...

and no professor has the right to propagandize his captive classroom audience or to grade them down if they disagree with his political opinions. But it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between acceptable teaching and unacceptable pros...

” Mr. Finkelstein generated protests by students and outsiders. He has encouraged radical goons to email threatening messages; “Look forward to a visit from me

neglecting to mention that I was specifically asked by the former chairman of DePaul’s political science department to “point [him] to the clearest and most egregious instances of dishonesty on Finkelstein’s part.” I responded by providing....

a failed academic who had been fired from several universities

applicable equally to right and left. Free speech for me but not for thee is the beginning of the road to tyranny.

to defend the government and to work for the government. Some of the same hard leftists who demand academic freedom for themselves and their ideological colleagues were among the leaders of those seeking to deny academic freedom to a distin...

as one professor at this university has done

and words can harm you and maim you. That’s the price we pay for living in a democracy. It’s not that speech doesn’t matter. If speech didn’t matter

even while condemning what they were saying. Far better educated people than my mother also claimed not to understand. In a debate in Canada on laws criminalizing Holocaust denial

and that if anyone has refused to hire her

she made a film calling for the destruction of the Jewish state by armed struggle. She has personally received training in terrorism at camps from which terrorist raids were staged. She advocated the assassination of Nobel Peace Prize winne...

if the character committee hadn’t kept him out

your ideas belong in a nutshell because they are nutty ideas

you will rue the day that you ever thought that I would give you publicity because I will not stop condemning your organization and you know that the only condition that I will accept your case is because you have given me the freedom to ar...