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Podcast: Serious Inquiries Only
Episode: SIO244: On Publishing Fascist Op-Eds, with Bryan W. Van Norden
Description: The New York Times recently published an Op-Ed by Tom Cotton advocating a severe crackdown on the protests. The piece sparked a giant backlash and even a bit of a civil war within the Times. The Opinion editor officially stepped down. Joining us today is Professor Bryan Van Norden, who has written about why not all opinions deserve to be heard. Much of the justification people use tends to derive from Mill's On Liberty, but does that essay really justify platforming fascism? Links: Bryan's Op-Ed, Bryan's lecture on political discourse, Mill's...