In the season premiere of Dialectic, we sit down with Professor K-Sue Park to discuss her recent New York Times op-ed on the ACLU’s decision to defend white supremacists. Professor Park is a Critical Race Studies Fellow at UCLA Law.

You can read Professor Park’s op-ed here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/opinion/aclu-first-amendment-trump-charlottesville.html

Here are the articles that we mention during the episode:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/09/28/why-we-must-still-defend-free-speech/

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-weinrib-aclu-speech-history-20170830-story.html

Music: Something Elated by Broke For Free