Karla Adam and Kate Brady, ‘In Europe, hate speech isn’t free speech. Some in D.C. hate that’, Wall Street Journal, 16 October 2025

‘How can the international community rally against executions in Iran?’, Iran NTV, 14 October 2025

‘Is the Current Era of Free Speech Over?’, Merion West, 7 October 2025 (included in MW’s Ten Notable Articles of 2025).

From Brandenburg to Britain: Rethinking Free Speech in the Digital Era (with Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer), Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 6 Oct 2025

‘La liberté d’expression : bafouée aux Etats-Unis, préservée en Europe’, with Véronique Lamquin, Le Soir, 3 October 2025

‘America’s Founding Fathers built a federal system, rejecting monarchy and absolutism’, France24, 19 Sept 2025

Susanne Ebner, ‘Drehbuchautor wegen transkritischer Postings festgenommen – war die Verhaftung gerechtfertigt?’‚ Redaktions-Netzwerk Deutschland, 5 Sept 2025

Tuesdays Against Execution Podcast (hosted by Prof Raffaela Elia Antonietta), 2 Sept 2025

‘Why the Left Needs Its Own Reckoning’, Skeptic, Episode #535, 10 August 2025 (hosted by Michael Shermer)

‘Free Speech Under Attack?’, Brussels Signal, 31 July 2025 (Anne-Laure Dufeal / Justin Stares).

‘The Left Needs to Self-Scrutinize’, The Ethical Frontier, Ep. 71 (hosted by Jason Chen), 27 July 2025

‘A Critique of the Leftist View of History’, Conservative Historian, interview with A.D. Tippet, 24 July 2025

‘What Happened to the “Reform or Revolution” Debate?’, interview with What’s Left, hosted by Andy Libson and Eduardo Barca, 19 Jul 2025

Natasha Dangoor, Bertrand Benoit, and Max Colchester, ‘Europe’s Crackdown on Speech Goes Far and Wide’, Wall Street Journal, 7 July 2025

Susanne Ebner, ‘Between protection and harm: Is freedom of expression in danger in Europe?’ (interview in German, translation on request), RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland, 10 June 2025

Giorgia Valente, ‘How Online Influencers Spread Justifications for Political Violence’, The Media Line, 3 June 2025

‘Coming Clean: Critical Theory and the Left’, interview with What’s Left, hosted by Andy Libson and Eduardo Barca, 31 May 2025

‘Eric Heinze on Critical Theory and the Left’s Blind Spots’, The Politics Guys, interviewed by Michael Baranowski, 28 May 2025

Interview with Waseem Akhtar on ‘Demystified’, Dublin City FM Radio, 25 May 2025

National Public Radio (US), The Campbell Conversations, interviewed by Prof. Grant Reeher of Syracuse University, 17 May 2025

‘Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left, Eric Heinze’, hosted by Caleb Zakarin, New Books Network, 16 May 2025

‘Prof. Eric Heinze on The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left’, Free Speech Union, interviewed by Nick Hanne, 30 April 2025

‘The Fight for Speech: Democracy vs. the Algorithms’, inSUBSTANTIA – Exploring Ideas, Challenging Assumptions, interviewed by Gábor Farkas, 7 May 2025

The Philosopher’s Zone, History and the left, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company), interviewed by David Rutledge, 2 May 2025

Escaping Ideology, Episode 23 – podcast with Jonathan Church of Merion West (Spotify), 19 April 2025

‘Moments with Marianne – with Special Guest Eric Heinze’, KMET Radio 1490AM & 98.1FM (Southern California), 10 April 2025

Interview (from 00:21:30) with presenter Henry Bonsu on Scottish court verdict against anti-abortion protester, Times Radio, 4 April 2025

Quoted in: ‘A court ordered Greenpeace to pay a pipeline company $660M. What happens next?’, The Raw Story, 21 March 2025

Why Free Speech is Everything, interviewed by Jason Chen for The Ethical Frontier, episode 59, 3 March 2025

Censorship, abortion and the ‘threat within’: what a free speech expert thinks of J.D. Vance’s remarks to Europe, The Conversation, 19 February 2025

Video interview about 2025 book Coming Clean with Rini Mukkath, Head of Communications, Media Diversity Institute, 10 February 2025

Quoted in Alexander Panetta, ‘“We have to straighten out the press”: Trump’s plan to sue media critics into submission’, CBC News 20 Dec 2024

Is Free Expression a ‘Liberal’ Principle?, Free Expression, interview with Dax D’Orazio, 4 Nov. 2025

‘MDI Debate: Should Experts Grant Interviews to Biased or Controversial Media and Social Media Outlets?’, Media Diversity Institute, 16 September 2024

‘The best books to understand hate speech – picked by Eric Heinze’, Sheperd.com, 9 Sept. 2024

‘The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech is Everything’, New Zealand Free Speech Union, interviewed by Jonathan Ayling, 23 May 2024

‘Biden considers stop to Assange prosecution’, LBC News – The Morning News (presenter: Lisa Aziz), 6.40, 11 April 2024

‘UK high court delays US extradition request for Julian Assange’, LBC News – Evening News (presenter: Steve Holden), 20:40, 26 March 2024

Quoted in Tom Williams, ‘Why do UK universities keep losing legal cases?’, Times Higher Education, 7 March 2024

‘The Concept of Mercy in International Human Rights’, Voice of Islam Radio (London), 14 Dec. 2023

‘The Labour Party’s proposal for racial equality does not go “too far”,’ featured on Saturday Morning with Esther & Philip (30:18 – 35:57) (Presenters: Esther McVeigh and Philip Daviess), GB News, 7 October 2023

‘Multiculturalism is a success’, featured on State of the Nation (22:45 – 24:18) (Presenter: J. Rees-Mogg, MP), GB News, 27 Sept. 2023

Carolina Kamil and Peter Suppli Benson, ‘Vennerne vender os ryggen’ [‘Our friends have turned their backs on us’] Berlingske 5 August 2023 (interviewed about government and international responses to public burnings of the Koran in Denmark and Sweden)

‘What is woke?’, Neil Oliver Show (Presenter: Bev Turner), GB News, 29 July 2023 (21:00 – 23:50; 35:17 – 37:40)

Алёна Лобанкова (Alyona Lobankova), «Пропаганда не имеет отношения к свободе слова». Как похорошел твиттер при Маске и почему левые бьют тревогу (‘Propaganda has nothing to do with freedom of speech – How Twitter got prettier under Musk and why the left is sounding the alarm’), Vot Tak Media (Belsat TV), 14 April 2023

‘Hate Speech and Freedom of Speech’ (at 13:20), Voice of Islam Radio: Drive Time, hosted by Zakaria Sheikh and Saad Ahmed, 17 January 2023

‘Does the diversity movement have a glass ceiling?’, Twitter Space interview hosted by Hannah Ajala, Media Diversity Institute, 26 July 2022

Witness on ‘Unacceptable Opinions’, BBC 4, The Moral Maze, presenter: Michael Burke, 6 and 9 July 2022

‘Cancel culture in the context of deliberative communication’, MediaDelCom (interview with Urmas Loit), 9 June 2022

‘Eric Heinze: Free Speech is the Most Human Right’, Shaping Opinion podcast (interview with Tim O’Brien), 9 May 2022

How will Musk’s plans for Twitter hold up against Europe’s new tech regulations? Marketplace Tech, 2 May 2022

‘Reality Check: What You Can and Can’t Say, It’s More (and Less) Than You Think’, BamRadio, 29 April 2022

‘Facebook Struggles with Hate Speech around Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine’, interview with BBC World Service journalist Dina Newman, 8 April 2022

‘We can’t wait until Russia is dropping bombs for us to realise that free speech was a problem all along’, interview with Mariella Frostrup on Times Radio, 3 March 2022

‘Free Speech Crisis in University’ (podcast), Debate with Prof. Adrienne Stone (Melbourne), Oxford Human Rights Hub, 21 Sept. 2021

Interviewed by Phoebe Cooke for DeSmog-UK: ‘Big Name Climate Deniers Aren’t Joining Conspiracy Theory-Friendly Parler — Yet’, 17 Dec. 2020

Interviewed by Corbin Hiar for ClimateWire: ‘Parler is fertile ground for climate denialism, experts worry’, 30 Nov 2020.

Interviewed by Mikhail Yakovlev, Media Diversity Institute, London: ‘Parler: The “Unbiased” Social Media Platform of Conspiracies and Hate’, 22 Oct. 2020

Interviewed by Indus News Lahore (television) on Scope show, hosted by Waqar Rizvi: ‘Responses to Islamophobia in Britain’, 24 July 2020

Interviewed by Indus News Lahore (television) on Scope show, hosted by Waqar Rizvi: ‘In UK Neo-Nazis encourage followers to “deliberately infect” Jews & Muslims with coronavirus as extremists exploit pandemic’, 10 July 2020

Interviewed (in Dutch) by Pamela Kalkman on censorship in Europe, NOS Radio, the Netherlands, 31 Oct 2019

Interviewed by Mina Hauge Nærland, ‘Du kan ikke bare sensurere folk som Steve Bannon og håpe at de blir borte’ (‘You can’t just censor people like Steve Bannon and then hope they’ll go away’), Aftenposten, Norway, 8 May 2019

Interviewed by Sarah Souli, ‘The Netherlands’ Burgeoning Free Speech Problem’, The New Republic, 13 March 2019, https://is.gd/mAAUnk

Interviewed on limits of free speech, Voice of Islam Radio, DriveTime Show, 3 Dec 2018

Interviewed for ‘What is a “real” antisemite?’, Quartz, 29 July 2018

‘Free speech on campus’, interview for A little of a lot, TBS eFM Radio, South Korea, 4 June 2018

Interviewed for BBC, ‘Nazi forums closed in Reddit crackdown’, 26 October 2017

Interviewed for OZY, ‘The UK Takes the Campus Free-Speech Debate to New Heights — by Banning Tabloids’, by James Watkins, 29 Aug 2017

Interviewed for BBC, ‘Daily Stormer: Cloudflare drops neo-Nazi site’, 17 August 2017

Interviewed for BBC, ‘GoFundMe removes campaigns for Charlottesville suspect’, 15 August 2017

‘Is Free speech under attack?’ Roundtable hosted by Matthew Moore, TRT World Television, 19 July 2017 (television panel discussion with activists Peter Tatchell, Weyman Bennett, Naa Acquah)

‘Pessoas não devem ser excluídas por terem opinião ruim’ (‘People must not be excluded because of their bad opinions’), interview with daily broadsheet Folha de S. Paolo, Brazil, 30 June 2017

Interviewed in Rachel Frommer, ‘Tensions Flare as SOAS Students Promise Protest of Israeli Envoy Mark Regev’s Upcoming Talk on London Campus’, The Algemeiner, 21 April 2017 (also reported in The Guardian, 25 April 2017)

Interviewed for: John Boyd, ‘Hate speech in Japan: To ban or not to ban?’, Al-Jazeera, 19 March 2015

Interviewed for: Joanna Slater, ‘After Paris attacks, blurred lines over free speech issues’, The Globe and Mail (Canada), 16 Jan 2015

Interviewed by Nikolaj Rytgaard, ‘Is there a straight line from speaking to murdering?’ (‘Går der en lige linje fra ord til mord?’), in the Danish daily newspaper Berlingske, 30 July 2011

‘Is the Current Era of Free Speech Over?’, Merion West, 7 October 2025.

‘Trump and painkillers: The attack on science is an attack on democracy’, The European, 25 September 2025

‘Who Pays for “Free” Speech?’, Merion West, 25 August 2025

‘England’s new free speech law comes into force – what it means for universities’, The Conversation, 31 July 2025

‘Why the left must also take responsibility for some of history’s greatest crimes’, New York Post, April 19, 2025

‘Without self-criticism, there can be no progressive thought in the academy’, Times Higher Education, 15 April 2025

‘The Amnesiac Politics of American Leftists’, The Dispatch, 5 April 2025.

‘Sussex’s fine underlines the folly of censoring rival arguments’, Times Higher Education, 28 March 2025

‘What Progressives Need to Do’, Merion West, 21 March 2025

Censorship, abortion and the ‘threat within’: what a free speech expert thinks of J.D. Vance’s remarks to Europe, The Conversation, 19 February 2025

‘Trigger warnings are nothing but tribal slogans’, Times Higher Education (online and print), 5 Nov. 2024

‘Israel-Gaza protests have cost police at least £25 million so far – but can you put a price on free speech?’ The Conversation, 6 March 2024

‘Why the death penalty is incompatible with democracy’, The Conversation, 26 Jan 2024 (reprinted in Newsify, Flipboard, Inoreader; Japanese translation

‘When the Establishment No Longer Calls the Shots in Writing History’, New Lines, 27 May 2022

‘Twitter: not even Elon Musk is wealthy enough to bring absolute free speech to the platform – here’s why’, The Conversation, 27 April 2022, read 29,000 times across South Africa,United States, India, United Kingdom and Australia, and republished by Firstpost, News24, Yahoo News, Inforrm, Videnskab, The Fulcrum, Daily Maverick; quoted in Jamie Seidel, “Elon Musk has bought Twitter but he kind of hates free speech” news.com.au, 22 April 2022

‘The sins of authors should not bar their works from reading lists’, Times Higher Education, 2 Sept. 2021

‘Self-inculpatory laws exist’, Free Speech Debate, 17 December 2019

‘Peeing on Pétain’, Free Speech Debate, 13 June 2019

‘Should governments butt out of history?’, Free Speech Debate, 12 March 2019,

‘What is ‘dehumanising’ speech?’, Free Speech Debate, 18 Feb 2019

‘Karl Marx’s Theory of Free Speech’, Humanity Journal (Two parts. Part 2 here.) 31 May – 1 June 2018

‘Law and Historical Memory: Theorising the Discipline’, Verfassungsblog, 7 Jan 2018; reprinted in Free Speech Debate, 12 February 2018

‘Are you sitting comfortably? How safe spaces became dangerous’, in Free Speech Debate, 5 December 2017

‘Why Israel?’, debate with Prof Bill Bowring, Speakers Corner Trust, 17 August 2017

‘UK Election results: A Conversation’ with Prof Rosa Freedman on Debates.eu, 15 June 2017

‘Israel, no-platforming – and why there’s no such thing as “narrow exceptions” to campus free speech’, The Conversation, 30 April 2017. Reprinted by Yahoo.news, 30 April 2017 and Free Speech Debate, 10 May 2017

‘Should I go to that conference in Hungary?’, Times Higher Education (THE) print and online, 27 April 2017. Reprinted in Free Speech Debate, 24 May 2017

‘Russia is the global leader in Jew-hate’, Jewish Chronicle, 24 February 2017

‘UC Berkeley, Donald Trump and the muddled ethics of no-platforming’, The Raw Story, 14 February 2017. Reprinted from The Conversation, 13 February 2017. Also reprinted in Business Standard, 14 February 2017

‘Free speech debates are more than “radicals” vs “liberals”’, Aeon, 5 January 2017. Reprinted in Free Speech Debate, 5 January 2017

‘Bans on Holocaust denial don’t help Jews’, OpenDemocracy, 8 November 2016

‘When a face veil is and isn’t a problem in lectures’, Times Higher Education (THE) print and online, 8 Sept 2016

‘Towards a post-liberal theory of free expression’, Critical Legal Thinking, 6 September 2016

‘Justification for banning burkinis? Two law professors debate’ (with Prof Rosa Freedman), Above the Law, 31 Aug 2016

‘Ukraine, Nationalism and Rule of Law’ (discussion with Professor Bill Bowring), Debates.eu, 24 – 26 August 2016

‘Leave Or Remain: Two Barristers’ Real-Life Brexit Debate’ (with Prof Rosa Freedman), Above the Law, 23 June 2016

‘“Internalised homophobia”: The exception or the paradigm?’, Critical Legal Thinking, 15 June 2016

‘Law can enshrine a country’s history, but it is a citizen’s right to question it’, The Conversation, 19 May 2016

‘What is antisemitism?’, The Independent 29 April 2016, reprinted from ‘Labour in meltdown – but what is antisemitism?, The Conversation, 28 April 2016. Also reprinted in Quillette, 28 April 2016

‘How a BBC talkback host took on a hateful troll … and taught us all a lesson’, The Conversation, 4 March 2016

‘Ten arguments for – and against – No-Platforming’, Free Speech Debate, 1 March 2016

‘Historical memory is not about victims – it’s about us’, openDemocracy, 27 January 2016.

‘What is Holocaust commemoration for? – Remembering Kristallnacht’, openDemocracy, 9 November 2015. Reprinted in ENARgy: The European Network Against Racism’s webzine, 9 November 2015

‘British MP exploits vague defamation law to sue Guardian journalist’, in The Conversation, 11 February 2015

‘Torture Allegations, Racial Conflicts…and Leadership on Human Rights?’, The People’s Daily (PR China), 31 Dec 2014. English version here.

‘Senate CIA torture report release: expert reaction’, in The Conversation, 9 Dec 2014

‘Human Rights: The Mass Media’s Bogeyman?’, in Media Diversity Institute, 30 September 2014

‘Anti-Semitism is not held to account in the same way as other forms of bigotry’, in The Conversation, 15 August 2014

‘Are all forms of prejudice really equal?’, in Left Foot Forward, 4 June 2014

‘Nineteen arguments for hate speech bans – and against them’, in Free Speech Debate, March 31, 2014. Reprinted in Eurozine, 9 April 2014

‘For all our recent advances, are we really wedded to gay rights?’, in The Conversation, 10 March 2014

‘Angela Davis’s Racism: A Glance at Morality and History’, Critical Legal Thinking, 25 November 2013

‘On Churches and Dictators’, Washington Post, 14 Sept. 2010 (transferred to On Faith)

‘Lawless Israel?‘ Washington Post, 7 June 2010 (transferred to On Faith)

‘Ancient Greek philosophy for the modern world‘, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2010, (transferred to On Faith)

‘In Defense of the Burqa: A Gay Perspective‘, Washington Post, 10 July 2009, (transferred to On Faith)

‘Who’s afraid of Aristotle?’ Guardian, 15 March 2009

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