Table of Contents
FIRE Hot Topics page offers primers on today’s biggest campus rights issues
Curious about some of the hot-button issues related to campus free speech and due process but don’t know where to start?
FIRE’s Hot Topics page is here to get you up to speed, featuring backgrounders on a number of FIRE-related topics. Now on our site, you can find short primers on:
- Microaggressions
- Free Speech Zones
- Due Process
- Sexual Harassment
- Hate Speech
- Title IX
- Affirmative Consent
So if you need a link to send that Facebook commenter who insists there’s a hate speech exception to the First Amendment (there isn’t), or if you’re wondering whether you can legally protest outside your public campus’ “Free Speech Zone” (you can), then head over to FIRE’s Hot Topics page today to learn more.
Recent Articles
Get the latest free speech news and analysis from FIRE.
It was never just going to be about keeping kids off social media
Age-gating teens online was never going to stop with kids. The UK is already promising a more "active interventionist state" for the internet.
Pepperdine banned a professor who taught about a black Jesus
Pepperdine promises professors freedom to teach controversial ideas and vigorously debate colleagues. Christina Littlefield is testing that promise.
The Biden-era Title IX rule was already dead. Now it’s off the books.
FIRE warned that the Education Department's proposed Title IX changes would violate the First Amendment and gut fair campus disciplinary hearings.
VICTORY: Iowa judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer
An Iowa state court on Wednesday dismissed President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper.