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The War on Words
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Mike talks with Greg Lukianoff, attorney, New York Times bestselling author, and President and CEO of FIRE: the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. They discuss Greg’s latest book, The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech - And Why They Fail, with Nadine Strossen.
Topics Mike & Greg discuss include:
- Why calling words “violence” leads to actual violence
- The case against hate speech laws
- Free speech lessons from Nazi Germany and Rwanda
- Shoutdowns as mob censorship on campus
- Whether the internet makes speech protections obsolete
- Mill’s trident and the case for truth through debate
- Who really benefits from free speech protections
- The limits of regulating misinformation and disinformation
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