Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one tweet can launch — or end — your career, and where free speech is often invoked as a principle but rarely understood, learning to maneuver the fast-changing, treacherous landscape of public discourse has never been more urgent. In Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All, Suzanne Nossel, a leading voice in support of free expression, delivers a vital, necessary guide to maintaining democratic debate that is open, free-wheeling but at the same time respectful of the rich diversity of backgrounds and opinions in a changing country.
Shermer and Nossel discuss: private vs. government restrictions on speech; hate speech, libel, slander, compelled speech; incitement to violence and insurrection; cancel culture; social media censorship; the euphemism treadmill, and more…
93. Geoffrey Miller — Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech
92. Tim Samuels — Future Man: How to Evolve and Thrive in the Age of Trump, Mansplaining, and #MeToo
91. James Traub — What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
90. Melvin Konner — Believers: Faith in Human Nature
89. Richard Dawkins — Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
88. Daniel Oberhaus — Extraterrestrial Languages
87. Douglas Murray — The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity
86. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Letters from an Astrophysicist
85. Deepak Chopra — Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential
84. Christof Koch — The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed
83. Peter Boghossian — How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide
82. Phil Zuckerman — What it Means to be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life
81. Bruce Hood — Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need
80. Bryan Walsh — End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World
79. Anthony Kronman — The Assault on American Excellence
78. Dr. Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes
77. Dr. Lee McIntyre — The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
76. William Poundstone — The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
75. Charles Fishman — One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew us to the Moon
74. Shaili Jain, M.D. — The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Sasquatch Chronicles
The Confessionals
Radiolab
Sasquatch Odyssey
DarkHorse Podcast