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0:00 The return of the “speech is violence” argument

6:05 Who’s the arbiter of “misinformation” and “disinformation”?

8:06 The University of Virginia topped FIRE’s college free speech rankings

14:08 The Victorianism of the Woke

22:10 The comedian as gadfly

24:40 Do we need to “protect” Jewish students from pro-Palestine speech?

31:23 Harvard Derangement Syndrome

37:13 FIRE’s defense of Amy Wax

39:59 Using Title IX to restrict speech

46:24 Complicating the left-right speech distinction

49:34 FIRE enters the AI debates

Recorded June 2, 2025

Links and Readings

FIRE

Greg and Nancy Strossen’s forthcoming book, War on Words: 10 Arguments against Free Speech—and Why They Fail

Lisa Feldman Barrett’s 2017 NYT op-ed, “When Is Speech Violence?”

FIRE’s 2025 College Free Speech Rankings

FIRE’s Scholars Under Fire Database

Rajiv Sethi’s post, “Under Fire”

Glenn’s forthcoming book, Self-Censorship

Musa al-Gharbi’s book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

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