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  1. 85
    . “National Reporting,”
    Pulitzer.org
    ,
    https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/209
    .
  2. 86
    . Rich Noyes, “Study: TV News Is Obsessed with Trump-Russia Probe,” NewsBusters, June 27, 2017; Rich Noyes, “Six Trump Accomplishments the Networks Ignored in 2017,” NewsBusters, January 17, 2018.
  3. 87
    . Ashley Feinberg, “The New York Times Unites Against Twitter,”
    Slate
    , August 15, 2019,
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/new-york-times-meeting-transcript.html
    .
  4. 88
    . Ibid.
  5. 89
    . 
    https://twitter.com/EricHolder/status/958757841116057600?s=20
    .
  6. 90
    . Conor Beck, “CNN Analyst Warns Against Releasing Nunes Memo: ‘Are We Going to Be a Democracy After Today?',”
    Washington Free Beacon
    , February 1, 2018,
    https://freebeacon.com/national-security/cnn-analyst-warns-releasing-nunes-memo-are-be-democracy-today/
    .
  7. 91
    . Bret Stephens, “Devin Nunes's Nothingburger,”
    New York Times
    , February 2, 2018,
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/devin-nunes-memo.html
    .
  8. 92
    . Matthew Rozsa, “ 'Worse than a nothing burger': The Nunes memo lands with a thud,”
    Salon
    , February 2, 2018,
    https://www.salon.com/2018/02/02/worse-than-a-nothingburger-the-nunes-memo-lands-with-a-dud/
    .
  9. 93
    . “Devin Nunes and the Nothing Burger Memo,”
    Washington Monthly
    , February 2, 2018,
    https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/02/02/devin-nunes-and-the-nothing-burger-memo/
    .
  10. 94
    . Charles P. Pierce, “ ‘Nothingburger' Doesn't Do This Memo Justice,”
    Esquire
    , February 2, 2018,
    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a16306229/nunes-memo-nothingburger/
    .
  11. 95
    . Bill Press, “The GOP's giant nothing burger,”
    Hill
    , February 5, 2018,
    https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/372439-press-the-gops-giant-nothing-burger
    .
  12. 96
    . “RE: Correcting the Record—The Russian Investigation,” unclassified memo of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
    January 29, 2018,
    https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/redacted_minority_memo_2.24.18.pdf
    .
  13. 97
    . Robert Schlesinger, “Nail in the Coffin for Nunes Memo,”
    U.S. News & World Report
    , February 24, 2018,
    https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2018-02-24/house-intelligences-democratic-russia-memo-finishes-off-nunes-nonsense
    .
  14. 98
    . “Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, December 2019 (revised),
    https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf
    .
  15. 99
    . Tim Hains, “Stephanopoulos To Adam Schiff: ‘Do You Accept You're your Original Judgments Were Wrong' About FISA Scandal?
    Real Clear Politics
    , December 15, 2019,
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/15/stephanopoulos_to_adam_schiff_do_you_accept_that_your_original_judgments_were_wrong_about_fisa_scandal.html
    .
  16. 100
    . Matea Gold, “The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun,”
    Washington Post
    , January 20, 2017.
  17. 101
    . Ibid.
  18. 102
    . Matthew Balan, “ABC's Stephanopoulos: Trump Civil Suit Conviction Could Be ‘Impeachable,' ” NewsBusters, November 10, 2016.
  19. 103
    . Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, and Shane Harris, “Trump's Communications with Foreign Leader are Part of Whistleblower Complaint That Spurred Standoff between Spy Chief and Congress, Former Officials Say,”
    Washington Post
    , September 18, 2019.
  20. 104
    . Kenneth Vogel and David Stern, “Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire,”
    Politico
    , January 11, 2017.
  21. 105
    . “Opening Statement for Vindman and Williams Hearing on Impeachment,” House Intelligence Committee, November 19, 2019,
    https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/nunes_opening_statement_for_vindman_and_williams_hearing_on_impeachment.pdf
    .
CHAPTER 8: “ORGANIZED DESTRUCTION”:THE LEFT'S ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH
  1. 1
    . Dave Rubin, “So You Think You're Tolerant?”
    PragerU
    , July 8, 2018; Kirsten Powers,
    The Silencing
    (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2013); David Marchese, “Bill Maher on the Perils of Political Correctness,”
    New York Times Magazine
    , September 30, 2019.
  2. 2
    . “7-Year-Old Suspended for Pointing Gun-Shaped Breakfast Pastry,” NBC Washington, March 4, 2013.
  3. 3
    . Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D., “How the Left Became So Intolerant,” Heritage Foundation, December 12, 2017.
  4. 4
    . Jim
    Goad, “The Corporate War on Free Speech,”
    Taki's Magazine
    , March 5, 2018.
  5. 5
    . Scott Jaschik, “Is Heckling Right?,”
    Inside Higher Ed
    , February 17, 2010,
    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/17/heckling-right
    .
  6. 6
    . Kyle Smith, “Now Inclusion Means Exclusion,”
    National Review
    , March 14, 2018.
  7. 7
    . Joseph Curl, “Denver Post Columnist Says He Was Fired for Saying There Are Only Two Sexes,”
    Daily Wire
    , January 21, 2020.
  8. 8
    . Blake Neff, “New York Can Fine You $250k for ‘Misgendering' Somebody,”
    Daily Caller
    , December 28, 2015.
  9. 9
    . Matt Welch, “Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrant Want the FCC to Revoke Sinclair's Broadcast Licenses,”
    Reason
    , April 12, 2018.
  10. 10
    . Ibid.
  11. 11
    . Roger L. Simon, “Time to Cancel the ‘Cancel Culture,' ”
    Epoch Times
    , January 15, 2020.
  12. 12
    . T. J. Roberts, “Cancel Culture: Its Causes and Its Consequences,”
    Advocates
    , February 24, 2020.
  13. 13
    . Robby Soave, “The Year in Cancel Culture,”
    Reason
    , December 31, 2019.
  14. 14
    . Douglas Murray, “How to Fight Back Against ‘Cancel Culture,' ”
    The Spectator UK
    , January 25, 2020.
  15. 15
    . Lee C. Bollinger, “Free Speech on Campus Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You,”
    Atlantic
    , June 12, 2019.
  16. 16
    . Ibid.
  17. 17
    . “Free to Speak: Reforming the Higher Education Act,” National Association of Scholars, April 22, 2019.
  18. 18
    . Jonathan Turley, “Betsy DeVos Is Right to Fix Obama's Campus Sexual Assault Policy,”
    Hill
    , September 12, 2017.
  19. 19
    . “Federal Government Mandates Unconstitutional Speech Codes at Colleges and Universities Nationwide,” FIRE, May 17, 2013.
  20. 20
    . Greg Lukianoff, “Feds to Students: You Can't Say That,”
    Wall Street Journal
    , May 16, 2013.
  21. 21
    . Jonathan Turley, “Betsy DeVos Is Right to Fix Obama's Campus Sexual Assault Policy.”
  22. 22
    . Ibid.
  23. 23
    . John Tierney, “Journalists Against Free Speech,”
    City Journal
    , Autumn 2019.
  24. 24
    . Gibson Chu, “UC Berkeley Professors Request Cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos Talk,”
    Daily Californian
    , January 10, 2017.
  25. 25
    . Tierney, “Journalists Against Free Speech.”
  26. 26
    . Ibid.
  27. 27
    . Frances Floresca, “VETO: Student Gov. Denies Conservative Group Funding to Host Heather Mac Donald,”
    Campus Reform
    , October 28, 2019.
  28. 28
    . Heather Mac Donald, “Drawing the Line, at Last,”
    City Journal
    , April 22, 2019.
  29. 29
    . 
    Ibid.
  30. 30
    . Ibid
  31. 31
    . Kassy Dillon, “Pro-life Group Sues CSU for Denying Funds Based on Content,”
    Campus Reform
    , January 17, 2017.
  32. 32
    . Anthony Gockowski, “Purdue Staff Member Calls Pro-Life Students ‘Vile, Racist Idiots,' ”
    Campus Reform
    , February 8, 2016.
  33. 33
    . “University of Scranton: Denial of Recognition of Turning Point USA,” FIRE,
    https://www.thefire.org/cases/university-of-scranton-denial-of-recognition-of-turning-point-usa/
    .
  34. 34
    . “ ‘Yikes nope, denied': University of Scranton Stands By as Student Government Denies Recognition to Conservative Group,” FIRE, December 5, 2019.
  35. 35
    . Disinvitation Attempts,” FIRE, https://www.thefire.org/research/disinvitation-database/#home/?view_2_sort=field_6|desc&view_2_page=1&view_2_per_page=50.
  36. 36
    . “Free to Speak: Reforming the Higher Education Act,” National Association of Scholars, April 22, 2019.
  37. 37
    . “State of the Law: Speech Codes,” FIRE,
    https://www.thefire.org/legal/state-of-the-law-speech-codes/
    .
  38. 38
    . David Rosenthal, “Another College's Speech Code at Odds with First Amendment Values,” Heritage Foundation, January 26, 2017.
  39. 39
    . John Agar, “Kellogg Community College Curbs Student's Free Speech with Arrest, Lawsuit Says,” MLive, January 18, 2017.
  40. 40
    . FIRE, “What Are Speech Codes?” FIRE,
    https://www.thefire.org/resources/spotlight/what-are-speech-codes/
    .
  41. 41
    . Keith E. Whittington,
    Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
    (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018), xi, 30, 6.
  42. 42
    . Peter Berkowitz, “Colleges' Central Mission Erodes—and Free Speech with It,”
    Real Clear Politics
    , April 7, 2018.
  43. 43
    . David L. Hudson Jr., First Amendment Scholar, and Lata Nott, Executive Director, First Amendment Center, “Hate Speech & Campus Speech Codes,” Freedom Forum Institute, March 2017.
  44. 44
    . Ibid.
  45. 45
    . Ibid.
  46. 46
    . Jonathan Turley, “No, the U.S. Does Not Need European-Style Hate Speech Laws,”
    USA Today
    , November 8, 2019.
  47. 47
    . Doug Stanglin, “What is antifa and what does the movement want?,”
    USA Today
    , August 23, 2017,
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/23/what-antifa-and-what-does-movement-want/593867001/
    .
  48. 48
    . Anna Giaritelli, “Video Shows Car Set Ablaze by Alleged Antifa Shooter in Attack on ICE Detention Center,”
    Washington Examiner
    , August 16, 2019.
  49. 49
    . Robby Soave, “Yes, You Can Get Kicked Off Twitter for Saying ‘Learn To
    Code'—Even If It's Not Harasssment,”
    Reason
    , March 11, 2019,
    https://reason.com/2019/03/11/learn-to-code-twitter-harassment-ross/
    .
  50. 50
    . Richard Hanania, “It Isn't Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals,”
    Quillette
    , February 12, 2019.
  51. 51
    . Ibid.
  52. 52
    . Ibid.
  53. 53
    . Todd Spangler, “Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Pulls for Hillary Clinton Presidential Win, Citing Her Kids,”
    Variety
    , July 29, 2016.
  54. 54
    . Ibid.
  55. 55
    . Kara Swisher, “Google Has Fired the Employee Who Penned a Controversial Memo on Women and Tech,”
    Vox
    , August 7, 2017.
  56. 56
    . David Crary, Rachel Zoll, and Michael Liedtke, “Mozilla CEO Resignation Raises Free-Speech Issue,”
    USA Today
    , April 4, 2014.
  57. 57
    . “Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent ‘Trump Situation” on Hidden Cam,” Bitchute, June 24, 2018.
  58. 58
    . Auguste Meyrat, “Here's the Real Reason Most Conservative Elites Ignore Concerns About Free Speech,”
    Federalist
    , July 30, 2019.
  59. 59
    . Ben Domenech, “How Tech Bias Became a Kitchen Table Issue,”
    Federalist
    , June 25, 2019.
  60. 60
    . Ibid.
  61. 61
    . Ibid.
  62. 62
    . Brad Parscale, “Democrats Want to Limit Free Speech, Regain an Iron Grip on ‘The Narrative,' ”
    Townhall
    , November 1, 2019.
  63. 63
    . Ibid.
  64. 64
    . Josh Hawley, “Senator Hawley Introduces Legislation to Amend Section 230 Immunity for Big Tech Companies,”
    Hawley.Senate.gov
    , June 19, 2019.
  65. 65
    . Peter Ban Buren, “When Censorship Moves Way Beyond Alex Jones,”
    American Conservative
    , June 17, 2019.
  66. 66
    . Ibid.
  67. 67
    . Editorial, “Adam Schiff Renews the Democratic War Against the First Amendment,”
    Washington Examiner
    , May 10, 2019.
  68. 68
    . 
    Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,
    558 U.S. 310, 2010.
  69. 69
    . Hans A. von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery, “Senate Democrats Again Pushing to Silence Freedom of Speech,” Heritage Foundation, June 2, 2014.
  70. 70
    . Editorial, “Adam Schiff Renews the Democratic War Against the First Amendment,”
    Washington Examiner
    , May 10, 2019.
  71. 71
    . Von Spakovsky and Slattery, “Senate Democrats Again Pushing to Silence Freedom of Speech.”
  72. 72
    . “Rep Schiff Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United,” Press Release, Office of Congressman Adam Schiff, May 8, 2019,
    https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-schiff-introduces-constitutional-amendment-to-overturn-citizens-united
    .
  73. 73
    . “Is
    H.R. 1 Really ‘for the People?' ” Heritage Action, March 7, 2019.
  74. 74
    . Editorial, “Dems Priority List Includes Attacks on Free Speech and Gun Rights,”
    Investors' Business Daily
    , November 12, 2018.
  75. 75
    . Ronald Newman and Kate Ruane, American Civil Liberties Union, “Letter to Rep. Jim McGovern and Rep. Tom Cole,” ACLU, March 1, 2019,
    https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2019-03-01_aclu_letter_to_house_rules_committee_on_h.r._1.pdf
    .
  76. 76
    . Caleb Parke, “Democratic Party Embraces Nonreligious Voters, Criticizes ‘Religious Liberty' in New Resolution,” Fox News, August 29, 2019.
  77. 77
    . Ibid.
  78. 78
    . Ibid.
  79. 79
    . Democratic National Committee, “Resolution Regarding the Religiously Unaffiliated Demographic,”
    Secular.org
    , August 2019,
    https://secular.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DNC-Resolution-on-the-Nonreligious-Demographic.pdf
    .
  80. 80
    . David French, “Yes, American Religious Liberty Is in Peril,”
    Wall Street Journal
    , July 26, 2019.
  81. 81
    . Casey Chalk, “Religious People Think Democrats Will Strip Our Rights Because It's True,”
    Federalist
    , January 1, 2020.
  82. 82
    . Joseph D'Souza, “Can We Trust the Democratic Presidential Candidates to Defend Religious Freedom,”
    Washington Examiner
    , October 28, 2019.
  83. 83
    . Ibid.
  84. 84
    . President Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Values Voter Summit,”
    Whitehouse.gov
    , October 12, 2019.
  85. 85
    . Mark David Hall, “Donald Trump and Religious Liberty,” Imaginative Conservative, January 20, 2020.
  86. 86
    . Attorney General William Barr, “Remarks to the Law School and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame,”
    Justice.org
    , October 11, 2019.
  87. 87
    . Brian Leiter,
    Why Tolerate Religion
    (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014).
  88. 88. Micah Schwartzman, “What If Religion Is Not So Special,”
    University of Chicago Law Review
    , January 11, 2013.
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