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EDITORIAL: Clarify Free Speech Policy

By Editorial Board February 28, 2017

Georgetown University received a dubious distinction last Wednesday after landing on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech. For a university...

Pentagon Whistleblower Advocates the Merits of Leaks

By Giovanna Azevedo February 24, 2017

The leaking of classified information is in the national interest, according to Daniel Ellsberg, the former Pentagon employee responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers, at a symposium discussing...

EDITORIAL: Barring Invitees Stifles Speech

By Editorial Board February 7, 2017

Although university administrators at the University of California, Berkeley, cancelled a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos last Wednesday following an eruption of violent protest on the campus, the right-wing...

VIEWPOINT: Invite Milo to Campus

VIEWPOINT: Invite Milo to Campus

By Alan Chen February 3, 2017

Self-described as “the most fabulous troll on the Internet,” Milo Yiannopoulos is eminently comfortable in his role as the left’s comically villainous bogeyman. Leveraging outrage for attention,...

Annabelle Timsit

TIMSIT: Defend Our Right to All Speech

By Annabelle Timsit November 11, 2016

Tuesday night’s election left many speechless. Contrary to the initial optimism that accompanied early exit polls and a surge in early voting, Republican nominee Donald Trump, a man with no political...

COURTESY ORDER & LIBERTY
The non-profit publication Order & Liberty was founded by Georgetown students and offers conservative commentary to inform debate on campuses around the nation.

‘Order & Liberty’ Comes to Georgetown

By Jack Segelstein November 4, 2016

Last month, the founding of The Georgetown Review, Georgetown’s first-ever daily conservative publication, and the Georgetown University Right to Life chalking incident prompted campus-wide reflection...

EDITORIAL: Maintain Effective Expression

By Editorial Board November 2, 2016

In 1989, when Georgetown University first implemented its policy for free speech and expression, Rev. James Walsh, S.J., its creator, explained that at the very core of a university is the “untrammelled...

TIMSIT: Changing Faces of Censorship

By Annabelle Timsit October 14, 2016

Clark Kerr, the late president of the University of California, Berkeley once said that a university “is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas.”...

Annabelle Timsit

TIMSIT: Curtailing Intellectual Freedom

By Annabelle Timsit September 30, 2016

Georgetown’s intellectual biodiversity is being challenged by what the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat calls the “rapid colonization of new cultural territory by an ascendant social liberalism.”...

Annabelle Timsit

Defending Honest Expression

By Annabelle Timsit September 15, 2016

A couple days ago, I attended the first class of my penultimate semester at Georgetown. During the introductory part of the class, and in front of several dozen of my peers, the professor stood up...

EDITORIAL: Disruption Hinders Dialogue

By Editorial Board September 13, 2016

On Sept. 12, it was announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would potentially be meeting in Luxembourg to further negotiate a peace settlement....

Annabelle Timsit

Struggling to Uphold Free Speech

By Annabelle Timsit September 2, 2016

In 1840, a Frenchman returned to his homeland from his journey to America and later published “Democracy in America,” a modern classic on the American political system. That young man, Alexis de...

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