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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2553 Free Speech and the Evil Woodrow Wilson

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Schenck v. United States was an important decision in U.S. history, related to the subject of freedom of speech, particularly in wartime. It turns out that so-called progressives have a pretty lousy record on this issue, as historian CJ Killmer explains in this episode. Sponsors: & Guest's Twitter:   Guest's Podcast:   Guest's Patreon:

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0:00.0

Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the

0:06.7

elites don't want you to know. You're listening to the Tom Woods Show. Show.

0:13.0

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:17.0

It's episode 2,553 of the Tom Woods show and we're joined by our old friend

0:25.1

CJ Kilmer who hosts the Dangerous History Podcast. He puts so much work into that

0:30.4

thing and it is work that a great many people appreciate and in particular today I want to

0:36.8

talk about a chunk of his very extensive coverage of the evil Woodrow Wilson and I thought in

0:44.2

particular we might spend some of our time today talking about the issue of the

0:49.4

First Amendment and CJ I was thinking in particular because of the comments I'm sure you saw by John Kerry.

0:55.7

I mentioned them on the show yesterday in which he expressed his frustration that the

0:59.7

First Amendment was standing in the way of really being able to clamp down on so-called

1:04.5

misinformation. So this seems like a good time to talk about the First Amendment. So

1:08.2

welcome back. Hey, great to be back, Tom. All right, so you spent some time specifically

1:14.4

on a famous case involving a socialist pamphlet

1:19.6

or a flyer that was opposed to military conscription on constitutional grounds.

1:26.0

So could you maybe set the stage for us,

1:28.0

maybe even say a little bit about,

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because I know you talked about it,

1:31.0

I listened to your episode,

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say a little bit about what was in that flyer first of all

1:34.9

Yeah, the case gets mentioned very often in like US history courses and you know sort of pre-law courses and things like that but rarely do they delve into the

1:44.8

contents of the flyer and I think there's good reason for that because it makes an

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