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What the Battle To Publish Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Means to Today's Free-Speech Struggles

06.05.2019 - By The Reason RoundtablePlay

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On today's podcast, Nick Gillespie speaks with Ronald K.L. Collins, a lawyer and scholar at the Newseum's First Amendment Law Center, and the author of a weekly blog called First Amendment News. He's also the co-author with David M. Skover of The People v. Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," a fast-paced history of the obscenity trial that ended in a watershed victory for free expression.

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