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Warning: This episode contains strong language and mentions of suicide.Over the past year, the federal government has taken a series of actions widely seen as attacks on the First Amendment.Greg Lukianoff, the head of a legal defense group called the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, speaks to Natalie Kitroeff about what free speech really means and why both the left and the right end up betraying it.Guest: Greg Lukianoff, the president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.Background reading: 

• Read Mr. Lukianoff’s guest essay for New York Times Opinion from September.

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