A Message About Free Expression

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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After nearly three years of enlightening conversations, Gerry Baker’s weekly Free Expression podcast is coming to an end. But you can still read his column every week in the Journal and he may even pop up from time to time in other places! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being evil queen has never been so fun.
0:03.0	And I am willing to do anything.
0:05.9	We will soon be at war.
0:07.7	You will have to take a side.
0:09.0	War with the Protestants.
0:10.3	What fun.
0:11.5	Or war with the Catholics.
0:12.9	None of us are safe.
0:14.4	Feels good to be bad.
0:16.0	The Serpent Queen on Channel 4.
0:18.5	Stream now.
0:20.1	Thank you to listening to the Free Expression podcast from the Wall Street Journal.
0:23.2	I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal. This is just to say that we're discontinuing
0:27.1	the free expression podcast as of December 2025. It's been a huge pleasure for me to do it over
0:33.7	almost three years. I'm enormously grateful to all of you for listening, enormously grateful to the many guests I've had on and the fascinating conversations I've
0:41.3	had. But we've decided that this is the end of the road for this podcast.
0:45.6	Previous episodes, of course, will still be available on this podcast feed, on YouTube,
0:51.1	and at WSJ.com. Of course, I'll still be writing in the Wall Street Journal. My weekly
0:57.8	column will continue. I also write for the Times of London, a weekly column there, which goes up
1:02.4	online on Thursdays. I hope you will look at that too. If you don't already know, it's at the
1:06.8	times.com.uk. And I'll be also writing, speaking, appearing in many different formats,
1:14.4	both in regular Wall Street Journal outlets and in occasional other outlets. And there are
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