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So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast takes an uncensored look at the world of free expression through the law, philosophy, and stories that define your right to free speech. Hosted by FIRE's Nico Perrino. New episodes post every other Thursday.

Ep. 267: Social media = cigarettes?

59 mins; April 01, 2026

Ep. 266: How foreign censors target American speakers

62 hours 11 mins; March 19, 2026

Ep. 265: Anthropic, age verification laws, and press freedom

60 hours 49 mins; March 11, 2026

Ep. 264: Anonymity from the founding to the digital age

52 mins; February 25, 2026

Ep. 263: Free speech in Trump 2.0

70 hours 38 mins; February 02, 2026

Ep. 262: Escaping Iran

68 hours 10 mins; January 22, 2026

Ep. 261: Thomas Paine's rise and fall

89 hours 29 mins; January 15, 2026

Ep. 260: Remembering 'free-thinking' writer Nat Hentoff

58 mins; December 19, 2025

Ep. 259: FIRE answers your questions

61 hours 49 mins; December 10, 2025

Ep. 258: Donor disclosure and campaign finance at SCOTUS

55 mins; November 25, 2025

Ep. 257: Conversion therapy at the Supreme Court

65 hours 50 mins; November 13, 2025

Ep. 256: Ten arguments against free speech

74 hours 19 mins; October 30, 2025

Ep. 255: Authoritarians in the Academy

40 mins; October 15, 2025

Ep. 254: What is going on with the FCC?

48 mins; September 30, 2025

Ep. 253: Pam Bondi says hate speech is not free speech — is she right?

65 hours 16 mins; September 16, 2025

Ep. 252: America's first free speech crisis — the Sedition Act of 1798

68 hours 11 mins; September 15, 2025

Ep. 251: Free speech and 'the executive power' with Advisory Opinions

72 hours 34 mins; September 04, 2025

Ep. 250: Civil rights, hate speech, and the First Amendment

57 mins; August 28, 2025

Ep. 249: FIRE Reacts — Where does Harvard go from here? With Larry Summers

68 hours 50 mins; August 12, 2025

Ep. 248: Commercial speech and the First Amendment

50 mins; August 06, 2025

Ep. 247: Justin Amash

69 hours 20 mins; July 24, 2025

Ep. 246: Tech check — AI moratorium, Character AI lawsuit, FTC, Digital Services Act, and FSC v. Paxton

71 hours 40 mins; July 10, 2025

Ep. 245: The Supreme Court's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton

46 mins; June 27, 2025

Ep. 244: Censoring lawmakers, T-shirts, and seashells

66 hours 27 mins; June 05, 2025

Ep. 243: Heather Mac Donald on Trump and free speech

59 mins; May 22, 2025

Ep. 242: Is cancel culture dead?

55 mins; May 08, 2025

Ep. 241: The government's money, the government's rules?

54 mins; April 23, 2025

Ep. 240: Is there a global free speech recession?

65 hours 13 mins; April 09, 2025

Ep. 239: Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, DEI, law firms, and more

64 hours 24 mins; March 27, 2025

Ep. 238: On Mahmoud Khalil

39 mins; March 18, 2025

Ep. 237: A tech policy bonanza! The FCC, FTC, AI regulations, and more

64 hours 48 mins; March 12, 2025

Ep. 236: JD Vance, 60 Minutes, the Associated Press, the FCC, and more

66 hours 27 mins; February 19, 2025

Ep. 235: Cancel culture, legal education, and the Supreme Court with Ilya Shapiro

79 hours 24 mins; February 06, 2025

Ep. 234: The Chicago Canon

67 hours 31 mins; January 23, 2025

Ep. 233: Rethinking free speech with Peter Ives

81 hours 6 mins; January 09, 2025

Ep. 232: We answer your free speech questions

66 hours 49 mins; December 18, 2024

Ep. 231: What is academic freedom? With Keith Whittington

67 hours 0 mins; December 12, 2024

Ep. 230: Wilson vs. FDR: Who was worse for free speech?

69 hours 43 mins; November 25, 2024

Ep. 229: Ayaan Hirsi Ali will not submit

45 mins; November 14, 2024

Ep. 228: Does artificial intelligence have free speech rights?

70 hours 43 mins; November 01, 2024

Ep. 227: Should there be categories of unprotected speech?

63 hours 31 mins; October 22, 2024

Ep. 226: 'Shouting fire,' deepfake laws, tenured professors, and mask bans

65 hours 35 mins; October 10, 2024

Ep. 225: Debating social media content moderation

72 hours 21 mins; September 26, 2024

Ep. 224: Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and free speech

70 hours 27 mins; September 12, 2024

Ep. 223: Teaching conservatism on a liberal college campus

47 mins; August 29, 2024

Ep. 222: John Stuart Mill's lasting impact on the Supreme Court

64 hours 17 mins; August 15, 2024

Ep. 221: Section 230 co-author, Rep. Christopher Cox

58 mins; August 01, 2024

Ep. 220: Political violence and speech

65 hours 47 mins; July 18, 2024

Ep. 219: The First Amendment at the Supreme Court

99 hours 29 mins; July 03, 2024

Ep. 218: A warning label on social media?

86 hours 50 mins; June 25, 2024

Ep. 217: 'Defending pornography'

73 hours 57 mins; June 20, 2024

Ep. 216: Section 230 and online content moderation

81 hours 26 mins; June 06, 2024

Ep. 215: 'Private Censorship' with J.P. Messina

77 hours 14 mins; May 21, 2024

Ep. 214: The Antisemitism Awareness Act

62 hours 11 mins; May 07, 2024

Ep. 213: Campus unrest - live webinar

66 hours 2 mins; April 30, 2024

Ep. 212: Should the First Amendment protect hate speech?

66 hours 59 mins; April 25, 2024

Ep. 211: Generational differences and civil liberties with Neil Howe

81 hours 49 mins; April 11, 2024

Ep. 210: The First Amendment at the Supreme Court

83 hours 11 mins; March 29, 2024

Ep. 209: 'Is money speech?' with Robert Breedlove

127 hours 53 mins; March 25, 2024

Ep. 208: Dodging censorship in Russia

60 hours 39 mins; March 14, 2024

Ep. 207 Free speech news: NetChoice, Taylor Swift, October 7, and Satan

83 hours 29 mins; February 28, 2024

Ep. 206: CJ Hopkins compared modern Germany to Nazi Germany. Now he's standing trial.

74 hours 24 mins; February 14, 2024

Ep. 205: An anarchist's perspective with Michael Malice

77 hours 8 mins; February 01, 2024

Ep. 204: "Liar in a Crowded Theater" with Jeff Kosseff

62 hours 44 mins; January 17, 2024

Ep. 203: 'Undefeated' with Coach Bill Courtney

63 hours 33 mins; January 03, 2024

Ep. 202: The backpage.com saga

63 hours 38 mins; December 21, 2023

Ep. 201: Crisis on Campus - X Space recording

57 mins; December 12, 2023

Ep. 200: The state of free speech

73 hours 56 mins; November 30, 2023

Ep. 199: Israel, Hamas, and censorship at home

65 hours 25 mins; November 08, 2023

Ep. 198: 2023-24 Supreme Court Preview

76 hours 38 mins; October 25, 2023

Ep. 197 'Are cakes speech?' with Alliance Defending Freedom's Kristen Waggoner

77 hours 10 mins; October 11, 2023

Ep. 196 'The Identity Trap' by Yascha Mounk

59 mins; September 27, 2023

Ep. 195 'Don't Tread on Me,' misgendering, cancel culture, and three strikes for Texas

78 hours 21 mins; September 07, 2023

Ep. 194 Harvey Silverglate, the beatnik criminal defense attorney

52 mins; August 23, 2023

Ep. 193 Can you still have a debate in high school debate?

63 hours 1 min; August 09, 2023

Ep. 192 Free speech at the Supreme Court

59 mins; July 26, 2023

Ep. 191 Civil liberties and Civil War

30 mins; July 12, 2023

Ep. 190 Free speech and Abolitionism

32 mins; June 27, 2023

Ep. 189 Why should we care about punk rock?

62 hours 17 mins; June 13, 2023

Ep. 188 How to make a winning free speech argument

81 hours 8 mins; May 31, 2023

Ep. 187 Fox/Dominion lawyers reflect on historic case

95 hours 4 mins; May 15, 2023

Killer Mike on free speech, racial justice, and Rap on Trial

44 mins; April 27, 2023

Ep. 185 Sex, drugs, and free speech (Bob Guccione Jr. and Nick Gillespie)

80 hours 6 mins; April 19, 2023

Ep. 184 What's going on in Florida?

64 hours 6 mins; March 28, 2023

Ep. 183 The Stanford shout-down with David Lat

57 mins; March 22, 2023

Ep. 182 Ilya Shapiro on Fox/Dominion and his 'cancel culture nightmare'

59 mins; March 10, 2023

Ep. 181 New York Times v. Sullivan and its future

63 hours 22 mins; February 23, 2023

Ep. 180 Super Bowl free speech fumble

57 mins; February 08, 2023

Ep. 179 Artificial intelligence: Is it protected by the First Amendment?

64 hours 20 mins; January 25, 2023

Ep. 178 The costs of offending religious sensitivities

82 hours 30 mins; January 11, 2023

Ep. 177 Are Ann Coulter's words really 'violence'?

52 mins; December 20, 2022

Ep. 176 Can a graphic designer be compelled to design a website for a same-sex wedding?

67 hours 19 mins; December 07, 2022

Ep. 175 Jawboning, book banning, and LeBron James thinks hate speech isn't free speech (also Elon Musk … again)

72 hours 3 mins; November 21, 2022

Ep. 174 Elon Musk, PayPal, and is New York trying to destroy Twitch?

58 mins; November 03, 2022

Ep. 173 Does your book need a sensitivity reader?

78 hours 3 mins; October 19, 2022

Ep. 172 What does the First Amendment protect on social media?

70 hours 9 mins; October 04, 2022

Ep. 171 Nature Human Misbehavior

64 hours 19 mins; September 28, 2022

Ep. 170 Free speech and the American Founding

36 mins; September 14, 2022

Ep. 169 The Art of Insubordination

73 hours 12 mins; August 31, 2022

Ep. 168 Assassin's veto comes for Rushdie

62 hours 1 min; August 17, 2022

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