So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
So to Speak, Sarah McLaughlin, Rikki Schlott, Justin Amash, Aaron Terr, Ari Cohn, Corbin K. Barthold, Jacob Mchangama, Greg Lukianoff, Nico Perrino, James Kirchick, Robert Shibley, Adam Steinbaugh, Eugene Volokh, FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez, Samantha Barbas, David FrenchAn uncensored look at the world of free expression.
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So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast takes an uncensored look at the world of free expression through the law, philosophy, and stories that define your right to free speech. New episodes post every other Thursday.
Sarah is Senior Scholar, Global Expression at FIRE and author of Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech
Author of "The Canceling of the American Mind" New York Post Columnist Resident Zoomer
libertarian-republican • constitutional conservative • classical liberal • member of Congress, 2011–2021 • human cooperation, knowledge, scale, and freedom
Director of Public Advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
First Amendment & defamation lawyer. Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom. Illini/music junkie/oofnik. “A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.” Views and opinions are my own, and if you were smart they'd be yours too.
Internet Policy Counsel at TechFreedom.
CEO of The Future of Free Speech, research professor at Vanderbilt University. Senior Fellow at FIRE. Author of "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media", host of the podcast "Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech".
President & CEO of FIRE, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind w/ Jon Haidt & The Canceling of the American Mind w/ Rikki Schlott
Nico Perrino is executive vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), host of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, and co-director/senior producer of the documentary "Mighty Ira."
Author and journalist
Special Counsel, Campus Advocacy, FIRE
Attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
FCC Commissioner. Latina-American. Communications attorney and tech nerd. Dog mom.
I'm a law professor at the University of Iowa. I've written several books on free speech history, including a biography of free speech pioneer Morris Ernst, a history of New York Times v. Sullivan, and a forthcoming book on hate speech.
David French is a senior editor at The Dispatch a columnist for Time, and a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisers.
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