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We've entered the dog days of summer, usually a slow news time. Turns out that it's not so slow right now, which is awkward for us because this is one of maybe two weeks in the year that we

assembled the show entirely from pieces that have previously aired. It's a week when we both take a break,

but it also gives us the chance to revisit some of our favorite

material, stuff that still resonates with us and we hope with you. So we're sticking to the

plans, starting with a very current issue and one of our favorite guests, author and University

of Chicago Law Professor Jeffrey Stone. His book called Perilist Times, Free Speech and Wartime,

chronicles White House efforts to squelch the press from the Sedition Act of 1798 right on through

the war on terrorism. Much has happened since we first discussed the book in December 2004,

so Stone will return in a few minutes to update us. But first, he explains how he

organized his book around the six moments in American history when free speech took a hit. He said

it always happened in time of war, or something like war. First was when the United States was on

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