Wine & Cheesed Speaker Series
Join the new civil liberties movement. Protect Americans from the Administrative State!
The NCLA Wine & Cheesed speaker series focuses exclusively on those who have something important to say, but have been deplatformed, canceled, or otherwise denied the ability to do so. Join us as we drink some wine, nibble some cheese, and discuss the topics and ideas that those in power don’t want you to hear.
Swimming Against the Tide: Fighting Censorship and Compelled Speech in Women’s Sports
Making the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team should have been the apex of Paula Scanlan's competitive swimming career. Instead, she was subjected to censorship, coercion, compelled speech, and a host of other indignities, all because she didn't think...
Thoughtcrimes Trump Tenure at Princeton: Professor Terminated for Expressing the Wrong Opinion
Professor Katz' troubles began when he had the temerity to express the wrong opinion: He criticized a campus group, the Black Justice League, in response to a list of racialist demands made during the tumultuous summer of 2020. Before he knew it, his employer...
Justice Delayed, Cancel Denied: Constitutional Scholar Suspended for Months over Tweet
NCLA’s President and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth chats with Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute. After 15 years at the Cato Institute, Shapiro was set to start new position as a Senior Lecturer at...
If MIT Won’t Defend Science, Who Will?!
NCLA’s President and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth chats with Professor Dorian Abbot of the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited Prof. Abbot to give a prestigious public lecture in the fall of 2021. But then the...
Et Tu, Stanford?! Top Epidemiologist Silenced for Following the Science
NCLA’s Executive Director and General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth, chats with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration. Dr....
What’s the EEOC So Afraid Of?
NCLA’s Executive Director and General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth, chats with Devon Westhill, President and General Counsel at Center for Equal Opportunity. Mr. Westhill was recently invited to testify before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...