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Free Speech Under Attack: Dave Rubin, Steve Simpson and Flemming Rose Discuss

In 2005, Flemming Rose, then editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, published a series of cartoons that were critical of…

A Student’s Right to Listen, Challenge, and Learn

TU reader Sam Goodman of Carleton University in Ottawa recently published this piece in her school's newspaper. In it, she…

Free Speech, Politics, and the Trump Controversy: An Interview with Steve Simpson

Steve Simpson is the director of legal studies at the Ayn Rand Institute. A former constitutional litigator for the Institute…

Fall Issue of The Undercurrent available for order!

Order Our Fall Edition Now! The Undercurrent, STRIVE's campus magazine, is proud to present our 27th print edition now available…

The Tyranny of Silence: Interviewing Flemming Rose

Flemming Rose is the Foreign Editor for Jyllands-Posten, Denmark’s largest daily newspaper. In September 2005, he commissioned and published twelve…

Free Speech vs. Religion: An Interview with Onkar Ghate

Dr. Onkar Ghate is a senior fellow and the Chief Content Officer at the Ayn Rand Institute. He has written…

“That’s Why I Draw You”: An Interview with Bosch Fawstin

  Bosch Fawstin is an accomplished artist, cartoonist, and free speech activist. His entry, printed above, took home First Prize…

“It’s None of Your Business!”—Say It about More than Just Government Surveillance

Very little of the fury directed against the NSA has been saved for the IRS. Perhaps the double standard is…

Can “Occupation” Be Peaceful?

By preventing ordinary citizens from going about their business, Occupiers are in effect protesting the “injustice” of laws that allow…

Campus Media Response: WikiLeaks is no Champion of Free Speech

Writing for Rutgers’ Daily Targum, Cody Gorman comes to a conclusion about the WikiLeaks controversy that is starkly different from…