THE FREE SPEECH DILEMMA
Luis Gruson

The Power of Story
I Love Stories. I really do. In fact, all humans are preconditioned to do so. In middle and high school I was always engaged in history...
The Egg Op Ed
What I do to others is done to myself. Every act of kindness, every mean thing I have ever done has always been done to myself. The same...
Freedom of Speech Under the Law – Real and Virtual
When we think about free speech from a legal context, it is important to understand what constitutes protected speech under the law. Not...
Succession Season 1 Takeaway
I recently finished the first season of the HBO hit series Succession. For those who haven’t seen it, I highly recommend you do so and...
Why Do People Want to Socially Engage Online but Fail to Post Any Content?
Why do people have and actively engage with social media? From a pragmatic standpoint, the reason most, if not all, people engage with...
Threats not Violence
Is receiving threats a sign of validation for a journalist? I’ve wondered about this for some time now. If we breakdown the core function...
When an Algorithm Decides What I Consume
The Facebook whistleblower and her files, while considered bombshell news, really took no one by surprise. Sure, it’s the first time a...
Was I Fired for What I Said or What I Did?
It’s a sign of maturity when you learn to control what you say. We all develop a filter; some finer than others. We learn to read...
Free Speech Tarnished by Fraud?
Elizabeth Holmes is currently on trial for multiple counts of wire fraud. The once Stanford drop-out Silicon Valley superstar has come...
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Universal Intellectual
Neil deGrasse Tyson makes the complex science of astrophysics accessible and interesting to people who, under normal circumstances,...










