Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.

In February, a jury found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie while the ...

Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author ...

The man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a Western New York arts institute in 2022 was ...

A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind ...

Hadi Matar’s 2022 knife attack left the acclaimed writer blind in one eye.

Salman Rushdie's attacker, Hadi Matar, receives 25-year sentence for attempted murder. Rushdie was stabbed during a lecture, ...

The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in ...

Renowned novelist Sir Salman Rushdie has backed out of a college commencement speech at the eleventh hour amid intensifying ...

The crazed fanatic who tried to stab Salman Rushdie to death on a New York lecture stage — blinding the author in one eye — was sentenced Friday to the maximum term of 25 years in prison.