From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Emerson Sykes, a staff attorney at the ACLU and your host.

This week's show is a bit different.

We taped it in front of a live audience at the Brooklyn Public Library

as a part of the night of philosophy and ideas.

We were joined by Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah,

a professor of law and philosophy at NYU and the New York Times ethicist.

We hope you enjoy our conversation.

Good evening, Brooklyn.

It's a great pleasure to be with all of you thinking people on this very cold night.

Special thanks to the Brooklyn Public Library and to the cultural services of the French Embassy

for inviting us here for the night of philosophy.

This is a special opportunity for us to have our first live taping of At Liberty. It's the ACLU's weekly podcast, featuring

conversations on civil rights and civil liberties. My name is Emerson Sykes. I'm a staff attorney

at the ACLU working on First Amendment free speech issues, and I'm also the host of At Liberty.

Thanks.

Tonight, our guest is Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, who probably needs no introduction.

Professor Appiah is currently a professor of philosophy and law

at New York University, and previously taught at Princeton, Harvard, and every other

great university on the planet. He's the author of numerous books, most recently The Lies

That Bind, Rethinking Identity. And you may also know him as the weekly columnist for the New York

Times, The Ethicist.

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