We pitched an ambitious project focused on a global effort to revive free expression by sharing three core First Amendment principles with democratic swing states experiencing a deepening free speech recession.

Warm congratulations to the winners and fellow competitors—so many powerful ideas aimed at strengthening freedom in places that need it most.

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Zakaria also rightly points out that, even though criticisms of European policy from U.S. officials are true, it doesn’t make their hypocrisy on free speech any better.

Watch the full segment here: www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/w...

Instead, there's mostly a furious denial that Europe is restricting free speech at all (after all, hate speech — as defined by European states and institutions — is not free speech, you simpleton!).

The need for European civil-libertarian free speech groups has never been greater.

Unfortunately, I have seen very little evidence that mainstream European opinion views the steady increase of speech-restrictive laws and policies as a problem.

Fortunately for Americans, the First Amendment protects against such blatant viewpoint discrimination, which is wide open to political abuse.

Meanwhile, European law actively encourages it.

In a review of “Our Dear Friends in Moscow” by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov and “Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime” by Marlene Laruelle, Joshua Yaffa discusses the forces that have shaped the Putin era.

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The timing of Dabhoiwala’s criticism of U.S. Free Speech Exceptionalism could not be more ironic as the Trump admin targets progressive ideologies, institutions, and individuals. A stark reminder that free speech, properly understood and robustly defended, benefits us all.

My review argues that Dabhoiwala ignores how free speech, for all its flaws, has been a genuine engine of emancipation—not a cynical cover for power.

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I also wrote about this case as part of a broader, troubling trend throughout a Europe that has failed to learn lessons 20 years in the making about why we should never give in to the assassin’s veto on speech that offends: www.persuasion.community/p/europe-lea...

At @thefireorg.bsky.social's Substack, I examined the broader free speech crackdown in the UK and called for a new wave of free speech champions to course-correct the country: expression.fire.org/p/the-united...

I recently wrote about this case in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social here and what it means for the UK’s legacy as the birthplace of many free speech defenders www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

I also explained how today’s attacks on expression echo past attempts to silence dissent.

Free speech isn’t about who controls the reins of power. It’s the foundation of liberty itself.

Read the full piece at @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...

At @cnn.com, I shared with @zbyronwolf.bsky.social that, when it comes to American history, free speech and racial equality are friends, not foes.