Fighting Faiths

Make No Law: The First Amendment Podcast

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Politics, History, Government, News

4.9 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Everyone loves a good redemption story. Maybe that's because it helps us believe it's never too late to change. But how does the same Justice who decided Schenck v. United States, a low point for First Amendment jurisprudence, become the ultimate source of famous First Amendment concepts and rhetoric? In this episode of Make No Law, the First Amendment Podcast by Popehat.com, host Ken White explores Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s transformation into the First Amendment hero we know him as today. To do this, Ken discusses the Sedition Act of 1918, Holmes’s dissension in United States v. Abrams, and the discourse with his friends and colleagues that ultimately swayed his opinion on free speech. He also talks to Professor Thomas Healy, First Amendment and constitutional law professor at Seton Hall and author of “The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind And Changed The History Of Free Speech In America.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	T's and Cs apply.
0:30.6	Everyone loves a good redemption story.
0:35.3	Maybe your favorite is Saul on the road to Damascus.
0:39.4	Maybe it's Ebenezer Scrooge going from Bah Humbug to keeping Christmas better than anyone.
0:46.2	Merry Christmas to one and all.
0:48.9	Or maybe it's Darth Vader throwing the emperor down a conveniently placed reactor shaft.
1:00.4	The site TV tropes, which tirelessly documents themes in popular culture,
1:06.7	calls this the heel-face turn, the moment when the bad guy turns good.
1:12.9	We like it, maybe because it makes us think that we're all redeemable, whatever wrong we might have done so far.
1:19.9	But sometimes it can be a stretch.
1:23.6	Last episode, we talked about Justice Oliver Wendell-Holmes Jr.
1:27.4	And how he coined the infamously
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