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0:00 The return of the “speech is violence” argument
6:05 Who’s the arbiter of “misinformation” and “disinformation”?
8:06 The University of Virginia topped FIRE’s college free speech rankings
14:08 The Victorianism of the Woke
22:10 The comedian as gadfly
24:40 Do we need to “protect” Jewish students from pro-Palestine speech?
31:23 Harvard Derangement Syndrome
37:13 FIRE’s defense of Amy Wax
39:59 Using Title IX to restrict speech
46:24 Complicating the left-right speech distinction
49:34 FIRE enters the AI debates
Recorded June 2, 2025
Links and Readings
Greg and Nancy Strossen’s forthcoming book, War on Words: 10 Arguments against Free Speech—and Why They Fail
Lisa Feldman Barrett’s 2017 NYT op-ed, “When Is Speech Violence?”
FIRE’s 2025 College Free Speech Rankings
FIRE’s Scholars Under Fire Database
Rajiv Sethi’s post, “Under Fire”
Glenn’s forthcoming book, Self-Censorship
Musa al-Gharbi’s book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
Greg and Rikki Schlott’s book, Canceling the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us
The IHRA definition of antisemitism
Steven Pinker’s NYT guest essay, “Harvard Derangement Syndrome”
Greg’s Atlantic essay, “Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard”
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