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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. 167 That Facebook post about abortion could land you in jail

50 mins; August 10, 2022

Ep. 166 Substack, a platform for free speech?

46 mins; July 20, 2022

Ep. 165 Title IX gets twisted again

49 mins; July 06, 2022

Ep. 164 'The First Amendment created gay America'

44 mins; June 22, 2022

Ep. 163 The new FIRE

60 hours 30 mins; June 06, 2022

Ep. 162 "Parental Advisory" and music censorship with Eric Nuzum

42 mins; May 25, 2022

Ep. 161 What did 'On the Media' get wrong about free speech … again?

75 hours 18 mins; May 09, 2022

Ep. 160 Hugh Hefner, free speech scrapbooker

45 mins; May 05, 2022

Ep. 160 Disney and Elon Musk

39 mins; April 26, 2022

Ep. 158 What is academic freedom?

86 hours 30 mins; April 21, 2022

Ep. 157 Former BBC bureau chief Konstantin Eggert and what you need to know about censorship in Russia

82 hours 33 mins; April 11, 2022

Ep. 156 What Russians don't know about the war in Ukraine

48 mins; March 23, 2022

Ep. 155 The John Roberts Supreme Court

60 hours 8 mins; March 09, 2022

Ep. 154 Sarah Palin v. New York Times

41 mins; February 22, 2022

Ep. 153 Elitist vs. egalitarian free speech (live recording, Q&A)

68 hours 5 mins; February 04, 2022

Ep. 152 Banning critical race theory

79 hours 20 mins; January 19, 2022

Ep. 151 Fighting words

45 mins; January 12, 2022

Ep. 150 George Orwell

63 hours 2 mins; December 14, 2021

Ep. 149 Caitlin Flanagan and Greg Lukianoff

69 hours 9 mins; November 23, 2021

Ep. 148 University of Austin, a new university devoted to free speech

46 mins; November 09, 2021

Ep. 147 'The Mind of the Censor' with Robert Corn-Revere

62 hours 10 mins; October 27, 2021

Ep. 146 Trigger warnings and DEI statements

70 hours 29 mins; October 13, 2021

Ep. 145 First Amendment history with Yale Professor Akhil Amar

96 hours 50 mins; September 29, 2021

Ep. 144 Matt Taibbi, Nadine Strossen, and Amna Khalid respond to 'On the Media' free speech critiques

76 hours 29 mins; September 15, 2021

Ep. 143 Politics and thought reform in K-12 education

52 mins; September 01, 2021

Ep. 142 Alfred Hitchcock and Hollywood's Production Code

45 mins; August 11, 2021

Ep. 141 Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade

46 mins; July 28, 2021

Ep. 140 Free speech, psychology, and madness

81 hours 7 mins; July 14, 2021

Ep. 139 Mahanoy v. B.L. Supreme Court ruling analysis

46 mins; June 24, 2021

Ep. 138 A history of Western censorship with Eric Berkowitz

79 hours 23 mins; June 16, 2021

Ep. 137 The Constitution of Knowledge with Jonathan Rauch

73 hours 28 mins; June 02, 2021

Ep. 136 Comic book panic!

42 mins; May 19, 2021

Ep. 135 Are education schools secretly driving campus censorship?

60 hours 27 mins; May 05, 2021

Ep. 134 A cheerleader's free speech case lands at the Supreme Court

45 mins; April 21, 2021

[FIXED] Ep. 133 University of Wisconsin Professor Donald Downs

72 hours 32 mins; April 12, 2021

Ep. 132 Academic Freedom Alliance with Keith Whittington

58 mins; March 24, 2021

Ep. 131 'Incitement' with David L. Hudson Jr.

39 mins; March 07, 2021

Ep. 130 Stonewalling by the University of California

18 mins; February 24, 2021

Ep. 129 'The Fight for Free Speech' with Ian Rosenberg

50 mins; February 10, 2021

Ep. 128 John McWhorter says academics are really, really worried

45 mins; January 27, 2021

Ep. 127 What happened to American childhood? with Kate Julian and Greg Lukianoff

57 mins; January 14, 2021

Ep. 126 Free speech after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

61 hours 4 mins; January 12, 2021

Ep. 125 National Review's Charles C.W. Cooke

66 hours 12 mins; December 09, 2020

Ep. 124 'Burning the Books' with Richard Ovenden

49 mins; November 30, 2020

Ep. 123 Campus mobs, heckler's vetoes, racial segregation, and a rogue student government!

54 mins; November 12, 2020

Ep. 122 U.S Constitution masterclass with Judge Douglas Ginsburg

44 mins; October 28, 2020

Ep. 121 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards

41 mins; October 15, 2020

Ep. 120.1 Mighty Ira documentary watch-along

102 hours 28 mins; October 12, 2020

Ep. 120 'Mighty Ira' Glasser

65 hours 51 mins; October 12, 2020

Ep. 119 2020 College Free Speech Rankings

49 mins; September 30, 2020

Ep. 118 David Goldberger, lead attorney in "the Skokie case"

55 mins; September 16, 2020

Ep. 117 What a summer …

63 hours 34 mins; August 13, 2020

Ep. 116 'Journal of Controversial Ideas' with Prof. Peter Singer

44 mins; August 04, 2020

Ep. 115 'Dare to Speak' with PEN America's Suzanne Nossel

65 hours 31 mins; July 20, 2020

Ep. 114 Glenn Loury objects

55 mins; July 08, 2020

Rebroadcast: How Daryl Davis, a black man, defeats the Ku Klux Klan with open dialogue

40 mins; June 24, 2020

Ep. 113 Charlottesville reflections with Rodney Smolla

61 hours 12 mins; June 03, 2020

Ep. 112 College social media censorship

36 mins; May 20, 2020

Ep. 111 "Dear Colleague," it's over. Title IX regulations analysis.

60 hours 17 mins; May 08, 2020

Ep. 110 The Constitution in the age of coronavirus w/ Prof. Josh Blackman

36 mins; April 27, 2020

Ep. 109 Censorship pandemic

49 mins; April 15, 2020

Ep. 108 A history of (dis)information wars in the Soviet Union and beyond

62 hours 7 mins; April 01, 2020

Ep. 107.1 "Coronavirus and the failure of the 'Marketplace of Ideas'"

16 mins; March 20, 2020

Ep. 107 FIRE, the coronavirus, and the failure of the 'Marketplace of Ideas'

51 mins; March 20, 2020

Ep. 106 'Free speech and justified true belief' w/ prof. Joseph Blocher

73 hours 48 mins; March 18, 2020

Ep. 105 'Rap on Trial'

55 mins; March 04, 2020

Ep. 104 Violent video games with Villanova Professor Patrick M. Markey

54 mins; February 19, 2020

Ep. 103 Guns, addiction, and the press

92 hours 57 mins; February 06, 2020

Ep. 102 Cultural sites, slurs, antisemitism, and Title IX

57 mins; January 22, 2020

McCarthyism and The Red Scare

68 hours 48 mins; January 02, 2020

The 100th episode: The state of free speech in America

91 hours 3 mins; December 11, 2019

John Stuart Mill's 'On Liberty'

87 hours 31 mins; November 25, 2019

'The First Amendment in the Trump Era' w/ Professor Timothy Zick

60 hours 44 mins; November 13, 2019

There's no such thing as free speech, argues Stanley Fish

71 hours 7 mins; October 30, 2019

Who was Hayden C. Covington?

47 mins; October 16, 2019

20 years of FIRE with co-founder Harvey Silverglate

45 mins; October 02, 2019

Kevin Williamson's 'The Smallest Minority'

49 mins; September 15, 2019

'Coddling' one year later

46 mins; September 04, 2019

Free speech, privacy, and President Trump's Twitter account w/ Alex Abdo

47 mins; August 21, 2019

'The Grievance Studies Affair'

83 hours 8 mins; August 07, 2019

'David French-ism'

68 hours 51 mins; July 24, 2019

Prof. Samuel Abrams wrote an op-ed encouraging viewpoint diversity. Then came the fallout.

52 mins; July 10, 2019

Defending libraries with James LaRue

47 mins; June 26, 2019

Intellectual property 101

62 hours 0 mins; June 13, 2019

Words, Violence, and Censorship at Williams College

39 mins; May 29, 2019

Wen Fa of the Pacific Legal Foundation

37 mins; May 15, 2019

The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl'

66 hours 45 mins; May 01, 2019

Mustafa Akyol on jailing journalists in Turkey, 're-educating' Uyghurs in China, and cultural conformity in America

58 mins; April 17, 2019

'Can free speech be progressive?'

58 mins; April 03, 2019

Techdirt's Mike Masnick

75 hours 21 mins; March 20, 2019

10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2019

52 mins; March 06, 2019

Former FEC Chairman Bradley Smith

74 hours 59 mins; February 20, 2019

LGBT equality and the First Amendment

65 hours 5 mins; February 06, 2019

Campus speech roundup: Art censorship, porn filters, speech restrictions abroad, and litigation victories

61 hours 21 mins; January 23, 2019

From black armbands to the U.S. Supreme Court

28 mins; January 09, 2019

Against 'Free Speech' with Anthony Leaker

83 hours 31 mins; December 26, 2018

'The Half-Life of Facts' with Samuel Arbesman

56 mins; December 12, 2018

'Uncensored' with Zachary Wood

69 hours 1 min; November 28, 2018

'Bodied' with director Joseph Kahn

59 mins; November 12, 2018

Thinking about free speech in bets with Annie Duke

74 hours 19 mins; October 31, 2018

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