In his Billboard Hot 100 hit “We Didn't Start the Fire,” American songwriter Billy Joel rattles off a list of historical references in order to argue that his generation…well, like the title says, didn't “start the fire” of global tragedy, scandal, and screw-ups.

FIRE monitors colleges and universities that maintain policies that sharply limit students' speech rights abroad and raise questions about how academic institutions should handle conflicts between American expressive rights and repressive policies in other countries.