Berkeley Free Speech News Today

A growing number of student activists and professors advocate shutting university doors to speakers with whom they disagree.

A growing number of student activists and professors advocate shutting university doors to speakers with whom they disagree.

A growing number of student activists and professors advocate shutting university doors to speakers with whom they disagree.

History tells us that violent oppression only calls out more demonstrations.

When the truth is subjective, contests of tastes are really just contests of power.

Radical attorney Stephen Bingham discusses Black Panther George Jackson, living underground in Europe and filmmaking.

Eldridge Cleaver would today be appalled at the idiotic, reckless, dangerous calls by groups like Black Lives Matter to defund and even abolish the police.

In the past two decades, a new, more radical form of progressivism has taken over American social and political life, even finding its way into the White House. Fresh instances of this new progressivism appear every day. For example:

Historian Ellen Schrecker explains how the privatization of universities began to stifle campus radicalism in the 1960s.

Journalist Will Bunch says instead of opening the door to a better life, college leaves many students deep in debt and unable to find well-paying jobs. His new book is After the Ivory Tower Falls.