The War on Words

Mike talks with Greg Lukianoff, attorney, New York Times bestselling author, and President and CEO of FIRE: the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. They discuss Greg’s latest book,  The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech - And Why They Fail, with Nadine Strossen.

Topics Mike & Greg discuss include:

- Why calling words “violence” leads to actual violence

- The case against hate speech laws

- Free speech lessons from Nazi Germany and Rwanda

- Shoutdowns as mob censorship on campus

- Whether the internet makes speech protections obsolete

- Mill’s trident and the case for truth through debate

- Who really benefits from free speech protections

- The limits of regulating misinformation and disinformation

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