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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

Greg and Rikki Schlott’s book, Canceling the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us

The IHRA definition of antisemitism

Steven Pinker’s NYT guest essay, “Harvard Derangement Syndrome”

Greg’s Atlantic essay, “Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard”

Cosmos Institute

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