Modern Threats to the First Amendment

The Annual Elizabeth M. Whelan lecture featuring Kimberley Strassel '94. The First Amendment's traditional protectors are failing, while its new gatekeepers aren't up to the task. This lecture will discuss how to protect free speech in an age of cancel culture, big tech censorship, and government encroachments on liberty. 

This event is also part of our Initiative on Freedom of Thought, Inquiry, and Expression. 

Kimberley Strassel '94 is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column. Ms. Strassel joined Dow Jones & Co. in 1994, working in the news department of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and then in London. She moved to New York in 1999 and soon thereafter joined the Journal's editorial page, working as a features editor, and then as an editorial writer. She assumed her current position in 2005. Ms. Strassel, a 2014 Bradley Prize recipient, is a Fox News contributor and appears on the Sunday political shows. She is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: "The Intimidation Game” and “Resistance (At All Costs).”  An Oregon native, Ms. Strassel earned a bachelor's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University.