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UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks to Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), about a new report revealing that 2025 has officially surpassed 2020 as the worst year on record for campus censorship and scholar sanctions. Despite the Trump administration’s campaign promises to restore free expression, Lukianoff details a disturbing shift where the political right has adopted the very cancel culture tactics it once decried, led by government officials who are now directly intervening to investigate, defund, and even deport students for controversial speech. From the fallout of the Charlie Kirk assassination to the use of executive orders to ban student groups, they explore why the new wave of state-sponsored retaliation is creating a chilling effect across American universities.
Even the progressives would have heard “Those who live by the sword also die by the sword.
After years of threatening the livelihood, family and personal safety of those they disagree with. They will be fi ding out what it’s like. It can’t be any thing but a good thing
Lukianoff disappoints; he rants against Trump without a single example. Trumps message to the academics was met with ‘No’ from Harvard etc, despite them agreeing with 80% of it, rather than responding with a counter proposal. It proves they are not willing to find common ground. Lukianoff shows his TDS as clearly as he could. He is not really a free speech advocate at all. Sad. I once admired him.