So to Speak podcast: There’s no such thing as free speech, argues professor Stanley Fish

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

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