“If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.”

American conservative political activist, author, columnist and lawyer

Ann Coulter is an American conservative political activist, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. Born Ann Hart Coulter, she became widely known in the late 1990s as a media pundit and an outspoken critic of the Clinton administration. Her first book focused on the impeachment of Bill Clinton and drew on her work writing legal briefs for Paula Jones’s attorneys, along with columns she had written about the cases. She also writes a syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate, which appears in newspapers and on conservative websites, and has written 13 books.