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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.

Free speech in the digital age with Jameel Jaffer

50 mins; October 17, 2018

Former Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr.

86 hours 6 mins; October 04, 2018

'True threats' with David L. Hudson Jr.

43 mins; September 20, 2018

'The Coddling of the American Mind'

54 mins; September 04, 2018

Outrage mobs in comedy

69 hours 2 mins; August 23, 2018

Artificial intelligence & speech rights

58 mins; August 09, 2018

How censorship crosses borders with Jacob Mchangama

93 hours 20 mins; July 25, 2018

Supreme Court review: Kennedy, Kavanaugh, and "weaponizing the First Amendment"

87 hours 39 mins; July 11, 2018

Most memorable FIRE cases

37 mins; June 27, 2018

'HATE' with Nadine Strossen

84 hours 2 mins; June 13, 2018

'Speak Freely' with Professor Keith Whittington

60 hours 27 mins; May 30, 2018

Debating 'Is there a campus free speech crisis?' with Sullivan, Haidt, Nossel, Sachs, & Foster

109 hours 51 mins; May 16, 2018

'Lust on Trial' with Amy Werbel

69 hours 33 mins; May 02, 2018

Exploring threats to a free press with Laura Handman

69 hours 28 mins; April 18, 2018

Have you been defamed?

57 mins; April 04, 2018

Is there a campus free speech crisis?

49 mins; March 27, 2018

Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

91 hours 34 mins; March 21, 2018

Bret Weinstein, professor in exile

85 hours 44 mins; March 07, 2018

The Great Firewall of China

39 mins; February 22, 2018

University of Alaska President Emeritus Mark Hamilton

58 mins; February 07, 2018

Randall Kennedy on 'The Forgotten Origins of the Constitution on Campus'

92 hours 27 mins; January 24, 2018

"The Great Dissent" w/ Professor Thomas Healy

63 hours 2 mins; January 10, 2018

'Natural Rights and the First Amendment' w/ Jud Campbell

67 hours 18 mins; December 27, 2017

Institute for Justice President and General Counsel Scott Bullock

56 mins; December 13, 2017

Revisiting Masses v. Patten (1917)

117 hours 39 mins; November 29, 2017

Harvard professor Steven Pinker

40 mins; November 15, 2017

Berkeley then and now

54 mins; November 02, 2017

LIVE EVENT: Viewpoint diversity on campus

85 hours 34 mins; October 18, 2017

'Is this the day the Internet dies?'

44 mins; October 05, 2017

The British free speech invasion

48 mins; September 20, 2017

"The neurodiversity case for free speech" w/ Geoffrey Miller

52 mins; September 06, 2017

Judge Richard Posner on the First Amendment

64 hours 2 mins; September 05, 2017

"After Charlottesville" w/ former ACLU President Nadine Strossen

68 hours 8 mins; August 22, 2017

Fredrik deBoer on the growing distrust of higher ed

60 hours 8 mins; August 09, 2017

The life of Louis Brandeis w/ Jeffrey Rosen

63 hours 54 mins; July 26, 2017

Et tu, hecklers? Howard Sherman on defending the arts

50 mins; July 12, 2017

The 100th anniversary of the Espionage Act of 1917

59 mins; June 28, 2017

The Slants win at the U.S. Supreme Court!

64 hours 5 mins; June 20, 2017

Tyler Cowen on the complacent campus

63 hours 44 mins; June 14, 2017

Campus free speech round table: spring 2017 semester in review

63 hours 47 mins; June 01, 2017

Eugene Volokh and new frontiers in the First Amendment

72 hours 7 mins; May 17, 2017

Former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser

133 hours 37 mins; May 03, 2017

'Sex and the Constitution' with professor Geoffrey R. Stone

51 mins; April 19, 2017

The 'heckler's veto' strikes Heather Mac Donald

35 mins; April 17, 2017

Putting money where your mouth is: campaign finance and free speech

46 mins; April 05, 2017

Bob Corn-Revere on censorship: the 'bastard child of technology'

54 mins; March 23, 2017

How Daryl Davis, a black man, defeats the KKK w/ dialogue

39 mins; March 08, 2017

Rob Corry, 'speech code slayer'

51 mins; February 22, 2017

Flemming Rose, Editor of 'the Muhammad Cartoons'

58 mins; February 08, 2017

The 'Turkey Purge' w/ Prof. Beth Baron

34 mins; January 27, 2017

The 'Turkey Purge' w/ Mahir Zeynalov

58 mins; January 25, 2017

Ken White of 'Popehat' Talks Nat Hentoff, Worst Censors of 2016

49 mins; January 11, 2017

Campus Free Speech Round Table: Fall 2016 Semester in Review

58 mins; December 28, 2016

ACLU National Legal Director David Cole

72 hours 24 mins; December 15, 2016

Free Speech Profiles: Attorney Martin Garbus

48 mins; November 30, 2016

Denying the Holocaust

38 mins; November 16, 2016

NYU Professor Stephen Solomon's 'Revolutionary Dissent'

43 mins; November 02, 2016

spiked's Brendan O'Neill on the Fight for Free Speech Overseas

45 mins; October 20, 2016

Flying Dog Brewery: 'Good Beer, No Censorship'

30 mins; October 05, 2016

Robert Shibley's 'Twisting Title IX'

55 mins; September 21, 2016

Jason Riley on Being 'Disinvited' from Campus

43 mins; September 08, 2016

Alice Dreger on Academic Freedom

38 mins; August 24, 2016

'The Trials of Lenny Bruce'

69 hours 42 mins; August 11, 2016

The Daughters: Carlin, Pryor, and Bruce Speak Out

65 hours 29 mins; July 27, 2016

The Summer Interns Take Over

20 mins; July 14, 2016

Aryeh Neier on "Defending My Enemy"

57 mins; June 29, 2016

2015–16 Campus Free Speech Year in Review

52 mins; June 15, 2016

David Baugh on 'Defending My Enemy'

37 mins; June 01, 2016

Glenn Greenwald On "Defending My Enemy"

35 mins; May 18, 2016

Jonathan Rauch's "Kindly Inquisitors"

48 mins; May 04, 2016

Welcome!

1 min; April 18, 2016

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