Dec 19, 2025
On January 7, 2017, The Associated Press announced that “Free-thinking author and columnist Nat Hentoff is dead at 91.”
For well over 60 years, Hentoff was a one of America’s foremost public intellectuals and a familiar byline to free speech advocates and jazz aficionados.
The First Amendment was a way of life for...
Dec 10, 2025
Changes at the Pentagon, Charlie Kirk and cancel culture, free speech and misinformation, globalized censorship, Indiana University, how to support FIRE, and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introductions
02:11 What is the Press Clause, and who does it apply to?
05:53 FIRE’s position on Oklahoma student grading incident
Nov 25, 2025
The Institute for Free Speech’s Bradley Smith and Brett Nolan join the show to discuss two upcoming Supreme Court arguments involving donor disclosure (First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin) and political party contributions to candidates (National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC).
The...
Nov 13, 2025
FIRE’s Ronnie London and Conor Fitzpatrick join the show to discuss the Supreme Court’s oral argument in the conversion therapy case, the Pentagon’s new press rules, Indiana University’s censorship rampage, and where the situation stands with visa and green card holders who say things the feds don’t like.
Oct 30, 2025
We tackle ten common arguments against free
speech.
FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff and FIRE Senior Fellow and
former ACLU President Nadine Strossen are the co-authors of the new
book, “War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They
Fail.”
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:18 Book’s...