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Podcast: So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
Episode: The 'heckler's veto' strikes Heather Mac Donald
Description: On April 6, Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald was standing in Claremont McKenna College's Athenaeum preparing to give a lecture to an empty room. An empty room was not what Mac Donald expected when she traveled to California from her New York City home to deliver a lecture on her new book, "The War On Cops." But outside the auditorium, close to 300 people had surrounded the Athenaeum, preventing prospective audience members from entering. They were protesting Mac Donald's defense of law enforcement policing tactics and her criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. Ultimately, the...