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So to Speak podcast: ‘David French-ism’
Nico Perrino (left), Greg Lukianoff, and David French sit to discuss “David French-ism.”
National Review senior writer and former FIRE President David French has become an “-ism.”
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, French joins us to discuss “David French-ism” and “the battle dividing conservatives” over civil liberties.
Also joining us is FIRE’s current President & CEO Greg Lukianoff, author of The New York Times bestseller “The Coddling of the American Mind,” due out in paperback on Aug. 20.
Show notes:
- Podcast transcript
- Podcast video
- “Against David French-ism” by Sohrab Ahmari
- “In defense of French-ism” by David French
- “Against conservative cultural defeatism” by David French
- “How free speech died on campus” by Sohrab Ahmari
- Greg’s book recommendations: “The Shadow University” by Alan Kors and Harvey Silverglate, “Mere civility” by Teresa Bejan, “The Hollow Men” by Charles Sykes
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