Greg Lukianoff
The Washington Post
I’ve spent 25 years watching colleges find new ways to suppress speech. I wish I could say the latest dismal campus record surprises me.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the organization I lead, has tracked more than 200 attempts to shut down campus speakers, cancel performances or otherwise suppress expression in 2026 so far. No previous year reached 200. And for the second year running, of those attempts that had a political tenor, more have come from the political right than from the left: 116 to 64 in 2025, and 96 to 74 so far this year.
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