Table of Contents
So to Speak podcast: Campus mobs, heckler’s vetoes, racial segregation, and a rogue student government!
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø’s Robert Shibley and Adam Goldstein to discuss recent cases of censorship — and a case of racial segregation — on campus.
Show notes:
- Teaching history not permitted: St. John’s bulldozes academic freedom, punishes professor for posing question about ‘Columbian Exchange’
- Portland’s Lewis & Clark College mandates racial segregation in orientation programming
- Dear University of North Texas: The ‘Heckler’s veto’ is not a good thing
- University of Northern Iowa administration must correct its student government’s refusal to recognize ‘hate group’ Students for Life
You can subscribe and listen to So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast on , , and , or download episodes directly from .
Stay up to date with So to Speak on the show’s and pages, and subscribe to the show’s newsletter at sotospeakpodcast.com.
Have questions or ideas for future shows? Email us at sotospeak@thefire.org.
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.
To speak or not to speak: Universities face the Kalven question
As political pressure mounts, Dinah Megibow-Taylor explores whether recent institutional statements defend academic freedom — or quietly erode it.
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø statement on Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton upholding age verification for adult content
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold Texas's age-verification law for sites featuring adult content, effectively reversing decades of Supreme Court precedent that protects the free speech rights of adults to access information without jumping over government age-verification hurdles.
Orchestrated silence: How one of America’s most elite music schools expelled a student for reporting harassment
Rebecca Bryant Novak earned her spot at one of the world’s top music schools. But after reporting her advisor for harassment, she says the school turned on her. Now ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø is demanding answers.
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø to court: AI speech is still speech — and the First Amendment still applies
Is AI-generated speech speech? In a new amicus brief, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø says yes — and warns that when it comes to free speech and emerging tech, early missteps can echo for decades.