Bushkin.

Why is Miami, Miami?

What does the heartbreaking fate of the Cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children?

Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports?

I'm Malcolm Gladwell. In my new audiobook, Revenge of the

Tipping Point, I'm returning to the subject of social epidemics and the dark side of contagious

phenomenon. Find revenge of the tipping point wherever you find audiobooks out now.

From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories

behind the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. Freedom of speech is a basic constitutional

right in the United States. It's a human right recognized by international human rights declarations all over the world.

It's also a cultural value, an ideal that says that under certain circumstances, we should

be able to speak our minds in order to facilitate a meaningful public conversation.

And yet, at the same time, many people in our society have the feeling,

the intuition, the view, that free speech may have gone a little bit too far, that speech can

sometimes be abused and used as a forum or mechanism for suppressing people, subordinating

them, and expressing views that have real-world bad effects

on the equality of other human beings,

whether because of their race, their sex, their sexual orientation,

their gender orientation,

or a host of other potentially vulnerable characteristics.

How should we think about the difficult questions that arise

at the intersection of speech, liberty, and equality of all people? This is one of the most

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