Oct 31, 2019
Does free speech exist?
According to Cardozo Law Professor Stanley Fish, it does not.
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we dig into what the colorful professor means by this assertion and discuss his forthcoming book, “The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump.”
Show notes:
- Podcast transcript
- “There’s No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It’s a Good Thing, Too” by Stanley Fish
- “Areopagitica” by John Milton
- “Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes
- New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
- “Absence of Malice” (1981) movie
- “Inherit the Wind” (1960) movie
- “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas S. Kuhn
- “In defense of the NBA: The league has every right to come down hard on critics of China who work for it” by Stanley Fish
www.sotospeakpodcast.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/freespeechtalk
Like us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast
Email us: sotospeak@thefire.org