The ideal and limits of free speech and expression, and also the free access to information, as well as the various legal and extra-legal attempts at limiting that civil right. Censorship includes not only government actions against any media, published or not, but also the active suppression of such media by mainstream outlets. Unless a report is on free speech and/or censorship in general, it has been categorized in the subcategory of the country discussed.
By Greg Lukianoff ∙ May 15, 2014
CODOH has found this formidable speech of May 2014 by First Amendment lawyer and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on the battle for free speech on U.S. college campuses, a topic very much at the heart and sole of CODOH's Campus Project activities. So watch, listen and learn! As part…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 18, 2015
YouTube interview with Greg Lukianoff by the CATO Institute about censorship on U.S. campuses. Greg LukianoffPresident and CEOFoundation for Individual Rights in Education170 S. Independence Mall W., Suite 510Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone: 215-717-FIRE (3473)Fax: 215-717-3440 Mr. Lukianoff: The essay that won first place in FIRE's 2014-2015 Academia Essay Contest was quite uplifting. You awarded it…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 8, 2015
Mark Oppenheimer, a professor at Yale University, writes for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Salon, Slate, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic and others, in addition to The Tablet. So we should take him seriously. In his Tablet article of 2 November, this Jewish writer notes that Willis Carto was a “plain…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1998
John Bennett, founder and president of the Australian Civil Liberties Union, sends CODOH a warm hello from Down Under, where he has promoted revisionist scholarship and defended revisionist rights for more than twenty years. As Arthur Butz recently noted, “[Bennett’s] annual Your Rights booklet has made it the case that Australia is the only country…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1998
As CODOH’s $250K reward ad continues to multiply on campuses across America, the Anti-Defamation League—the ad’s chief target—has been forced to take public notice. Unable to block the ad’s placement at most colleges, ADL has marshaled its allies and surrogates in the Hillel Foundation and elsewhere to cajole or to pressure university administrators and faculty…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ June 1, 1998
Readers of Smith's Report may recall our announcement of having been the proud recipients of an Internet award in 1996 (see SR 47 “Notebook). The award was a “Top 5% of the Web” rating by Lycos—a web directory of top-shelf sites rated by the Web's most experienced reviewers. For quite some time CODOHWeb has proudly…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1998
Recent issues of Vierteljahreshefte fuer freie Geschichtsforschung (Quarterly for Free Historical Research), the Belgian-published, German-language revisionist review that shines as one of the world's best, contain various articles under CODOH bylines: Samuel Crowell, on the technique and operation of German air-raid shelters during WWII (including his devastating critique of the Majdanek door offered as the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1998
A column in the Jewish World (March 27-April 1998) gives a revealing, behind-the-scenes glimpse at how professional censors within the Jewish community think and operate against CODOH and the Campus Project. Writer Mik Moore edits New Voices, a publication of the Jewish Student Press Service, and is a recent graduate of Vassar. That last bit…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 1, 1998
As 1998 begins, a new strain of virulent anti-Americanism is circulating throughout our country. We see the Holocaust Lobby attempting, in complete and utter disregard for the basic tenets on which our country was founded, to eliminate revisionist dissent through nongovernmental, “voluntarist” tampering with the free market of ideas. While the Left, and nearly all…
By Bradley R. Smith, Martin Henry ∙ January 1, 1998
[A well-written article that Smith would have been glad to retain credit for.The piece, however, was written by Martin Henry, of whom you will shortly be hearing more.] Who will be left to stand up? The Review; University of Delaware, 5 December 1997 Bradley SmithGuest Column In the 20 years or so that the Gas…
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