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So to Speak podcast: What a summer ...

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by ݮƵAPP’s Robert Shibley and Samantha Harris to discuss a whirlwind summer: ݮƵAPP has fielded a record number of requests for help, and this week the Department of Education’s much-anticipated new Title IX regulations go into effect. There’s also “cancel culture.”
- FIRE’s recent cases
- by Greg Lukianoff and Adam Goldstein
- “In memoriam: Professor Mike Adams, 1964-2020” by Robert Shibley
- by Nick Cave
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