The idea that a documentary - 'American Dharma' - seeks to understand Trump, is too scary for some

This isn't about civil liberties, it's about keeping donors happy.

When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.

Its culture is too deeply embedded for effective reform. The best solution is to abolish the FBI and start anew. We need to rethink the kind of agency needed to investigate federal crimes.

Former President Donald J. Trump is doubtless the most investigated head of state in our nation’s history. Consider: The US National Archives and Records Administration reports that it recovered more...

FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate is a criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer and a fierce defender of free speech. Now, he is running for the Harvard Board of Overseers.

The upcoming trial of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, scheduled to begin Monday, should be moved outside Massachusetts or, at the least, postponed for a substantial period of time...

We need creative thinking and real problem solving to address inequality in education.

Administrative bloat affects, and infects, every college. According to an extensive collection of data put together by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Harvard had a three to on…

The controversy about a UCLA First Amendment Law exam question focused on the "Burn this bitch down!" Ferguson incident.

AG Barr's dismissal and Judge Sullivan's recalcitrance.

How many parents want adult children held responsible for adolescent wrong doing?

That this is now common practice at Harvard underscores the depth and breadth of constitutional ignorance.

Five alumni have been elected as new members of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and six as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association.

I have for a very long time been concerned with the corrosive problems springing up like crab grass in America’s colleges and universities.

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“All of this posturing avoids a long-overdue debate about how to decrease federal sentences across the board.”

"Free speech is hate speech," was a common refrain at Williams College.

Outlaw activity, not speech: that's the way to ensure public safety without violating the First Amendment.

Instead of removing libraries, colleges should reduce the number of administrators they hire.

Polite people would call it 'administrative overreach'.

Campus uproar triggered by a Harvard lawyer defending a #MeToo defendant

Author’s note from Harvey Silverglate: For more than a half-century, Professor Alan Dershowitz has been a law teacher, scholar, appellate lawyer, lecturer,

Unfortunately, speech suppression in academia is pretty much as common as it is outside of the ivy walls.

Some measure of comfort is provided by the fact that when these students grow up and enter “the real world,” they will adjust their views to take reality into account.

The Manhattan United States Attorney’s Office’s remarkable raid of the law office and home of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney,…

Unfiltered Dialogue with Harvey Silverglate: The State of Free Speech in Today's World In this gripping episode, we sit down with Harvey Silverglate, a ferve...

Nominate Sam Lessin for the Harvard Board of Overseers... More at https://samforoverseer.com/SummaryHarvey Silverglate and Sam discuss their candidacies for ...

Word that Boston attorney Harvey A. Silverglate agreed to join the defense team of Trump attorney John Eastman has prompted the latest round of anonymous phone calls. But as anonymous critics go,...