May 26, 2022
In this week’s episode of So to Speak, we focus on some of the notable cases of music censorship in America, the formation of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), and the lasting effects of the PMRC’s efforts on the music industry.
Author Eric Nuzum joins us to discuss his 2001 book, “Parental Advisory: Music...
May 9, 2022
Twitter is going to become
8chan. At least, that’s what
a recent episode
of the popular radio program “On
the Media” suggests will happen if Elon Musk successfully buys
Twitter.
Musk
promised to bring greater free speech protections to the social
media platform. But where Musk sees an opportunity for more
freedom,...
May 5, 2022
Did you know Hugh Hefner holds
the
Guinness World Record
for owning the largest personal
scrapbook collection in the world?
When
he was not building the global Playboy empire, he spent his
Saturdays compiling more than 3,000 scrapbooks, chronicling free
speech and press issues during his lifetime.
Apr 26, 2022
Does Disney have free speech rights? And did Florida violate the First Amendment when it punished the company for its political activism? Elon Musk is buying Twitter. What should free speech advocates make of that?
Recurring guest and famed First Amendment scholar Robert Corn-Revere is here to break it all down for us....
Apr 21, 2022
What is academic freedom? And who polices its boundaries?
Our guests on today’s show argue that the popular conception of academic freedom has become too closely connected with the concept of free speech.
Penn State Professor Michael Bérubé and Portland State Professor Jennifer Ruth are the authors of “It’s Not...