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The Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention kicks off this week in Washington, D.C., where this year’s theme, «New Frontiers,» espouses everything from technological advances and the rise of AI to young people at the forefront of the conservative legal movement — hoping to underscore the importance of open debate, free speech and earnest engagement across the political aisle.
The event will spotlight law students from universities across the country, who are standing up for free speech and viewpoint diversity amid what they say is a rise in «cancel culture,» censorship issues and incidents of campus unrest that have prompted a crackdown on event speakers, or led to ostracization by peers or professors.
The students, who head up their local Federalist Society chapters at law schools across the U.S., face very different obstacles in advocating for free speech and open debate, though some more subtle than others.
As the next generation of lawyers prepares to join hundreds of fellow law students, future peers, and judges in D.C. for Thursday’s conference, each told Fox News Digital that they see the same challenge ahead for young conservatives: not just defending free speech, but redefining it — in an academic environment they say too often punishes dissent instead of encouraging open discussion.
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An image of slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk is placed at a memorial in his honor, at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The State Department said it has revoked the visas of several foreigners over negative comments about Kirk’s assassination. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
Each of the students cited different attempts to intimidate speech or detract from attempts to engage with others in good faith that they’ve encountered — part of a broader pattern playing out at campuses nationwide.
Last month, administrators for New York University Law School canceled a pro-Israel legal scholar, Ilya Shapiro, from speaking at an event hosted by the Federalist Society chapter on Oct. 7.
Administrators had originally suggested that the group postpone the event date, citing concerns of protest and anticipated unrest. The students resisted and insisted on keeping the date, saying instead that relocating or postponing would amount to «giving in to the heckler’s veto.»
Public backlash ensued, and eventually administrators agreed to allow Shapiro to speak at the event as planned.
The unrest has only intensified in recent years, and the students cited instances of attempts to intimidate them or ostracize members, ranging from the subtle to overt.
At the University of Michigan, students gathered outside a Federalist Society event «taking notes of who was coming and going,» said Matthew Holmes, president of the chapter at the University of Michigan School of Law.
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Anti-Israel protesters make their way down Fifth Avenue toward Washington Square Park in New York City on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
«There are groups that tell their members, ‘If you go there, you’re not welcome at ours,’» he added.
Other incidents have targeted Jewish speakers and conservative viewpoints, prompting some to call it a growing culture of intolerance.
«We’re entering a new legal frontier,» said Jordan Holmes, a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, in a nod to this year’s convention theme.
«From AI to the courts, everything’s changing,» said Holmes, who heads up the university’s Federalist Society chapter. «But if people stop talking to each other, that’s when violence starts. We can’t let that happen.»
David Huang, who leads the Federalist Society chapter at Yale, echoed much of the same. Each of the law students separately spoke about the impact of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Kirk was killed while speaking onstage at a university in Utah. His death sent shockwaves across the U.S., and especially on college campuses nationwide, where administrators and students alike cited increased fears of an uptick in violence.
Federalist Society presidents and other young conservatives interviewed after Kirk’s death cited concerns for their own safety and fears of a broader chilling effect if they avoid hosting controversial speakers or events that invite spirited debate.
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A woman holds a sign as people attend a vigil hosted by Turning Point USA for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Colorado State University, on what was supposed be the next stop on his speaking tour, in Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S. September 18, 2025. (Cheney Orr/Reuters)
«I think that’s something that struck us all deeply,» Huang said of Kirk’s death, and the environment on campus. «The threat of political violence — especially against conservatives in law school, and college campuses — it’s something that’s very troubling to have in the back of your mind.»
But, he added, those fears were quickly put to rest by an event that the Yale Federalist Society chapter hosted just one day later, focused on the contentious topic of birthright citizenship. «It was one of our most controversial events of the semester,» Huang said. «I was worried. I asked for more security, but things went well, and we actually had the highest attendance we’ve had in years.»
«There’s this sentiment that attendance equals endorsement,» said Holmes.
He said of Kirk, «I think one of his best quotes is, ‘When people stop talking, that’s when violence starts.’ And I see a lot of people that are just unwilling to engage, that they don’t even see the opposition’s ideas of worthy of legitimacy, worthy of acknowledgment.»
At the end of the day, Holmes said, «this idea that I can’t even talk to you because your ideas are so repulsive — that just can’t last if we’re going to have a democratic republic.»
«I think other FedSoc presidents are reporting similar things happening, as people are realizing the importance of channeling our disagreements — into debates, into events, into speech — as opposed to violence.»
To be sure, students say these efforts still have a ways to go.
Still, they struck an optimistic tone about the future. Lamb noted her dean’s leadership and Texas’s political climate, while Holmes pointed to new civil discourse funding at the University of Michigan aimed at bringing students from across the ideological spectrum together for structured, earnest dialogue.
Banners on the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 27, 2025. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg)
«[What’s] so unique about the Federalist Society and its community is that people aren’t cynical towards looking towards the future,» Lamb said. «They’re energized. And in a world that so often tells young people to find something to be outraged about, it’s really refreshing to be around folks and students, attorneys, who are genuinely eager to think deeply about where the law is going and where we should go next.»
«Just this last week, we brought the Attorney General of Tennessee, Jonathan Scrametti, who had just won a landmark Supreme Court case regarding gender transition, surgeries, and chemicals for children,» Huang said.
«People hung up posters, brought them to events, saying Fed Soc invites child killers, and you know, people are well within their rights to express that disagreement — but that kind of irresponsible rhetoric is the sort of thing that raises the temperature in the national political sphere,» he continued.
«And I think we’re all too well aware of the consequences that can follow. How I’d prefer people to express their disagreement is simple,» Huang said. «Come, show up to the event and ask hard questions.»
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That was echoed by each of the students, who will each be participating in this year’s conference in public-facing ways.
The Federalist Society’s student division and rotating student chapter president will host a live event at this year’s conference where they interview judges about a passion, hobby, or interest — and its relation to the law. Holmes and Caroline Martin, the head of the Federalist Society’s chapter at the University of North Carolina School of Law, will host this year’s sit-downs.
The hope, organizers said, is to help personalize judges beyond their day jobs, and drive home the fact that they are people, underneath the strict courtroom procedures and heavy black robes.
«Come to the events, have your ideas challenged,» Holmes said of the Federalist Society chapters nationwide. «Feel free to push back. We really, really want to scrutinize ideas. Because when we do that, that’s when we draw the best conclusions.»
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Salman Rushdie, Mariana Enriquez, Han Kang y Fernando Aramburu: estos son los libros más esperados de 2026
Libros de misterio, ciencia ficción, dramas, historia, grandes recopilaciones o lo último en literatura latinoamericana, el 2026 llega cargado de novedades en todos los géneros y para todos los gustos, también para los aficionados a las biografías, con la publicación de las esperadas memorias de la francesa Gisèle Pelicot, de Liza Minelli y de Silvester Stallone.
Las últimas obras de Salman Rushdie, la Nobel coreana Han Kang, Emmanuel Carrère, Pierre Lemaitre, Fernando Aramburu, Mariana Enriquez o así como una novela póstuma de Frederick Forsyth y poemas inéditos de Rainer Maria Rilke destacan entre las novedades literarias de 2026.
La editorial Alfaguara relanzará la obra completa del escritor argentino Jorge Luis Borges, iniciando con Cuentos completos, Ensayos completos y Poesía completa el 22 de enero. Este lanzamiento simultáneo en España e Iberoamérica conmemora el 40º aniversario del fallecimiento del autor, con más títulos previstos para junio y noviembre de 2026.
Con La penúltima hora (Random House), un volumen de cinco relatos, Salman Rushdie vuelve a la ficción tras el ataque sufrido en 2022 que relató en su anterior libro, Cuchillo. Ahora, se reencuentra con personajes del Bombay de Hijos de la medianoche (1981) y completa un recorrido por los países donde ha vivido: India, Inglaterra y Estados Unidos.
En Tinta y sangre (Random House), Han Kang traza una novela de misterio protagonizada por un detective tenaz en medio de una historia de amor entre dos mujeres.
Koljós (Anagrama), es un libro de “amor” de Carrère a su madre, de la que se distanció tras publicar Una novela rusa 18 años atrás. En esta saga viaja por la revolución, el exilio de los rusos blancos, las guerras mundiales, la caída del bloque soviético, la Rusia de Putin y la guerra de Ucrania.
Tras El ancho mundo, El silencio y la cólera y Un futuro prometedor, Pierre Lemaitre culmina con Grandes promesas su exploración de los treinta ‘Años Gloriosos’ que marcaron la historia contemporánea.
Fernando Aramburu presenta en Maite (Tusquets) a dos hermanas y una madre que no se dicen toda la verdad, una novela enmarcada en los cuatro días del secuestro y asesinato de Miguel Ángel Blanco.
También habrá obras de la mexicana Gabriela Damián Miravete (Soñarán en el jardín), los colombianos Andrea Mejía (La sed se va con el río) y Antonio García Ángel (Que pase lo peor), del chileno Alfredo Andonie (Serpiente) y del peruano Daniel Salvatierra (Criaturas virales).
También llegarán Nadie me verá llorar (Random House), de Cristina Rivera Garza; Los golpistas, de Jaime Bayly, y Todo por la patria, de Martín Caparrós (ambas en Galaxia) o Las nerviosas (Caballo de Troya), de Rosa Chávez Yacila.
Y Félix G. Modroño con Tierra de sueños (Destino) o Elisa Díaz Castelo con Malacría (Sexto Piso).
Del panorama español sobresalen, además, Islandia (Destino), de Manuel Vilas; Coloquio de invierno (Tusquets), de Luis Landero; Un paraíso de escombros (Galaxia Gutenberg), de Gustavo Martín Garzo, o Arca (Seix Barral), de Ricardo Menéndez Salmón.
Del ámbito internacional se editarán Despedidas, de Julian Barnes, y Cruz del Sur, de Claudio Magris (ambas en Anagrama); El nombre en el muro (Seix Barral), de Hervé Le Tellier; Casos reales (Alfaguara), de Yasmina Reza; El libro de mi destino (Alianza), de Parinoush Saniee; August (Asteroide), de Christa Wolf; La edad ridícula (Minúscula), de Maryam Madjidi; El pozo (Destino), de Hye-young Pyun, y Kiev (Tusquets), de Elena Kostioukovitch.
En el cuento serán novedad En el camping (Anagrama), de Soledad Puértolas; Nunca cruces ese umbral (Anagrama), de Mariana Enríquez; Territorios (Páginas de Espuma), de David Roas; En agosto de 1995 juraron amarse hasta la muerte y ahí siguen sin morirse (Blackie), de Jorge de Cascante, y Cerillas Garibaldi (Galaxia), de Julià Guillamon.
Los ‘best sellers’ estarán representados por libros como Precipicio (Grijalbo), de Robert Harris, o Nunca digas nunca (Plaza & Janés), de Danielle Steel.
La cosecha negra traerá La venganza de Odessa (Plaza), de Forsyth, fallecido el pasado junio, secuela de su ya clásico Odessa, en la que alerta sobre el resurgimiento del nazismo; Las pruebas de mi inocencia (Anagrama), de Jonathan Coe; El amo (Alfaguara), de Santiago Díaz; Las horas secretas, de Mick Herron, y Objetos perdidos, de Carlos Zanón (ambas en Salamandra).
Otras novedades de suspense serán Con nadie (Destino), de Lorenzo Silva; Resultado final (HarperCollins), de Don Winslow; Muerte en Rook Hall (AdN), de Kate Atkinson; El caso Holst (Roca), de Søren Sveistrup; Oculto en las sombras (Principal), de Viveca Sten; Las buenas intenciones (Destino), de Víctor del Árbol; Asesinato en la Toscana (Lira), de T. A. Williams, o Nadie lo vio venir (Suma), de Shari Lapena.
Miss Merkel. Asesinato en terapia de grupo (Seix), de David Saffier; El cabaret del infierno (Contraluz), de Izara Batres; Asesinatos en Son (RBA), de Gustawsson & Enger; A la sombra de la tormenta (Catedral), de Christoffer Carlsson; El sacrificio (Planeta), de Henrik Fexeus; Mantis (Reservoir), de Francisco Bescós; Será por dinero (Siruela), de Aitor Marín; y Una habitación llena de gente (Duomo), de Daniel Keyes completan el género negro.
En novela histórica figuran La hija (Alfaguara), de Sergio del Molino; La maldición de los Stensson (Salamandra), de Niklas Natt och Dag; Corazones de León (Ático), de Dan Jones; Mi nombre es Celestina, de Desirée Baudel, y Daré el cielo por ti, de Jorge Molist (ambas en Grijalbo), o La mirada del mal (Plaza), de Reyes Monforte.
Asimismo, se publicarán El bufón favorito del rey (Roca), de José López; Alma de Castilla (Edhasa), de Alan Pitronello; El enigma del papa Luna (La Esfera), de José Ángel Mañas; Tres halcones para Tamerlán (HarperCollins), de Jesús Sánchez Adalid; La espía de Alfonso X (B), de Francisco Sempere; La clave de Mozart (RBA), de Fernando Méndez, o Las arrepentidas (Espasa), de Mari Pau Domínguez.
‘El libro de Joan’ (Contraluz), de Paul Thurin; ‘La desconocida del retrato’ (Duomo), de Camille de Peretti; ‘Milagro en Auschwitz’ (Newton Compton), de Michale Calvin y Naftali Schiff, y ‘La esposa alemana’ (NdeNovela), de Kelly Rimmer, son otras novedades históricas.
En poesía, además de ‘Sonetos a Orfeo’ (Lumen), con poemas y cartas inéditos de Rilke, se editará ‘Sinceramente’ (Salamandra), último poemario de Margaret Atwood.
Mientras que entre las biografías destacan A Hymn to Life, un canto a la vida de Gisèle Pelicot (Bodley Head), cuya historia de abusos sexuales conmovió al mundo y generó una ola de solidaridad y reconocimiento en torno a su figura; Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, la biografía de la icónica actriz y cantante estadounidense Liza Minelli (Grand Central Publishing) y Los escalones (Plaza & Janés), del actor Sylvester Stallone ha descrito como “su testamento”
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Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk gave a strong response to a perceived threat on his life by a Somali TikToker after she said on a livestream, «He [is] about to die.»
In a viral livestream posted by a since-deleted account, a Somali TikToker who went by the name «Dowza.z» said in reference to Musk, «I wouldn’t worry too much about him, he about to die.»
Though the streamer switched back and forth from speaking in Somali and English, her statement on Musk was said in English. She was discussing Musk’s recent criticisms of Somali-run businesses engaged in rampant fraud in Minnesota.
The comment prompted immediate backlash from conservatives who took the statement as a threat to Musk’s life.
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Musk himself appeared to take the statement as a threat, responding to the video in an X post in which he wrote, «Then it is war.»
Popular conservative account Libs of TikTok also commented on the clip, saying the FBI «should definitely look into this.»
X account DogeDesigner wrote, «Protect Elon Musk at all costs.»
Conservative commentator Eric Daugherty wrote, «When fraud is exposed – it’s always the fraudsters who yell and complain the loudest. Their THEFT will come to an end.»
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee posted on his personal X account, «Deport her immediately,» adding, «She shouldn’t be here.»
The Trump administration and lawmakers have launched probes into Minnesota’s «Feeding Our Future» $250 million fraud scheme that allegedly targeted a children’s nutrition program the Department of Agriculture funded and that Minnesota oversaw during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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At least 77 people have been charged in that scheme, which took advantage of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to waive certain Federal Child Nutrition Program requirements.
Likewise, another fraud scheme in the state stems from the Housing Stability Services Program, which offered Medicaid coverage for housing stabilization services in an attempt to help those with disabilities, mental illnesses and substance-use disorders receive housing.
The bulk of those charged are part of Minnesota’s Somali population, prompting Trump to announce in November that he was ending the Temporary Protected Status for Somali migrants in Minnesota that offers protection against deportation.
Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it was spearheading a major operation to arrest and remove those involved in the fraud.
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Elon Musk walks along the Colonnade after arriving with President Donald Trump on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
Musk has been highly vocal about the fraud being uncovered in Minnesota, repeatedly calling attention to it on his official X account, which has over 230 million followers.
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In a post on Saturday, Musk said the fraud scheme going on in Minnesota is «one of many» and that while leading the Department of Government Efficiency under President Donald Trump, his team «found hundreds of fraud schemes.»
«There was massive fraud in every government program, especially Federal funds sent as block grants to the states,» said Musk.
Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
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