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Mike talks with Greg Lukianoff, attorney, New York Times bestselling author, and President and CEO of FIRE: the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. They discuss Greg’s latest book, The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech – And Why They Fail, with Nadine Strossen.
Topics Mike & Greg discuss include:
– Why calling words “violence” leads to actual violence
– The case against hate speech laws
– Free speech lessons from Nazi Germany and Rwanda
– Shoutdowns as mob censorship on campus
– Whether the internet makes speech protections obsolete
– Mill’s trident and the case for truth through debate
– Who really benefits from free speech protections
– The limits of regulating misinformation and disinformation
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