Greg Lukianoff

Greg Lukianoff is an attorney, New York Times best-selling author, and the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). He is the author of "Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate," "Freedom From Speech," and FIRE’s "Guide to Free Speech on Campus." He co-authored "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure" with Jonathan Haidt. Most recently Lukianoff co-authored "The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution" with Rikki Schlott.

Lukianoff is also an Executive Producer of Can We Take a Joke? (2015), a feature-length documentary that explores the collision between comedy, censorship, and outrage culture, both on and off campus, and of Mighty Ira: A Civil Liberties Story (2020), an award-winning feature-length film about the life and career of former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser.

Lukianoff has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and numerous other publications. He frequently appears on TV shows and radio programs, including the CBS Evening News, The Today Show, and NPR’s Morning Edition. In 2008, he became the first-ever recipient of the Playboy Foundation’s Freedom of Expression Award, and he has testified before both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives about free speech issues on America’s college campuses.