Free Speech

I Passed Out a Flyer. The Trustees Tried to Shut Me Up.

The trustees are weaponizing the Office of Institutional Equity to avoid accountability

Apr 23

What CODA Gets Wrong About Columbia

Young people have enough dialogue—they need some convictions.

Feb 27 • Imaan Chaudhry

The Case for Reasoned Activism

Why defending free speech isn’t enough

Feb 22 • Coby S

A Letter to CPR: Your Distortion of Our Values Rings Hollow

A response to Columbia Political Review Editor-in-Chief Adam Kinder’s critique of Sundial’s anonymity policy

Dec 5, 2025 • Alex Nagin and Imaan Chaudhry

Should We Trust the FIRE Rankings?

A conversation with FIRE’s Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens on his organization’s free speech rankings

Nov 19, 2025 • Nick Baum

Ivana Hughes and Tucker Carlson Bridge the Political Horseshoe

On a Columbia scientist’s unlikely conversation with one of America’s most polarizing media figures

Nov 19, 2025 • Nikos Mohammadi

I’m the Girl You See Wearing a MAGA Hat on Campus

I put on my red hat to demonstrate Columbia’s commitment to free speech.

Nov 18, 2025 • Sherry Chen

“Last Marxist” Chris Cutrone Talks Charlie Kirk, Campus Protests, and Mahmoud Khalil

A conversation with one of the Left's leading free speech thinkers about the state of open discourse at Columbia

Oct 21, 2025 • Nikos Mohammadi

Dear Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union: Hands Off the Dual BA

TCDSU’s attempt to end the Dual BA with Columbia is not about protecting students—it’s about controlling them

Oct 16, 2025 • Alex Nagin and Artemis Edison

Honoring Dissent: Sundial’s Weekend at the CAFC Conference

What I, a free speech advocate, learned from academic heroes who refused to be silenced in the wake of intellectual persecution

Oct 16, 2025 • Imaan Chaudhry

Orienting Ourselves With "Disorientation"

What the activist pamphlet circulated during the first weeks of school can teach us about the importance of pro-Palestinian thought at Columbia

Oct 12, 2025 • TJ Gill

From Morris Hillquit to Zohran Mamdani

What we can learn from the socialist mayoral candidate who ran more than 100 years ago about the power of slogans, nuance, and free speech.

Sep 13, 2025 • Rebecca Kobrin

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