This "meticulous and much-needed" history of free speech "arrives at an interesting moment", said Joe Moran in The Guardian.

As part of a new initiative “Peak” that covers leadership and personal development through sports, The Athletic’s Rustin Dodd ...

The Bible begins with a speech act: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, ...

Bonobos form vocal combinations that reflect structured meaning, suggesting language-like traits evolved millions of years ...

Unlike nouns and verbs, pronouns usually evolve glacially. Anglophones have been using their tidy little set for centuries. But change is not impossible. In Sweden “hen”, a gender-neutral pronoun, ...

By the 1870s, the filibuster had become both a fixture of the political process and a noun ... a marathon speech by a small ...

Are freedom of speech and freedom of expression the same thing? In the UK, freedom of speech is legally one part of the wider concept of freedom of expression. You might not expect us to say this, but ...

"Free expression of thoughts and views is an integral part of a healthy civilised society ... and the police of their duty to protect constitutional rights, saying free speech was the "most cherished ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell and Kim Strassel. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/Khalil Hamra/Associated Press For anyone who thinks the ...

Yearwood noted early in her speech that there are “a lot of Garths in my life” before singling out her husband, fellow country star Garth Brooks. “The first Garth that I met is here ...