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HEADLINE: Free Speech, Trump's Proportionality Crisis, and the Independence of the Federal Reserve GUEST NAME: Richard Epstein SUMMARY: Professor Richard Epstein discusses Trump's "all-in" strategy affecting free speech (Jimmy Kimmel, FCC). He severely c

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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HEADLINE: Free Speech, Trump's Proportionality Crisis, and the Independence of the Federal Reserve
GUEST NAME: Richard Epstein
SUMMARY: Professor Richard Epstein discusses Trump's "all-in" strategy affecting free speech (Jimmy Kimmel, FCC). He severely criticizes Trump's abnormal attempt via the Supreme Court to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
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This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Batchelor. It's a pleasure to welcome my good colleague,

0:36.5

Richard Epstein of the Civitas Institute, teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago,

0:40.9

and is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Toby Award from the Pacific Research Institute for being an all-around really helpful person

0:46.6

when it comes to the vicissitudes of current events. Henry, Henry Tob was a colleague of

0:53.3

yours at one point,, I understand, Professor.

0:56.0

Much to my amazement, I never put it together until you read the resume this morning.

1:01.2

He was a chemist at the University of Chicago, went out to Berkeley, and I had to deal with a

1:07.0

very difficult issue. It was a faculty member. How much outside work can a faculty member do?

1:12.9

And it was one of the committees where people who did none wanted everybody else to do very

1:16.8

little. And people who did a lot, wanted a lot of people to do a lot of work. And so the great

1:22.8

question is, do you count the weekend when you're doing a calculation of what does it mean to consult for one

1:28.3

day a week? And some people wanted a situation which says, one day a week means one day during

1:33.8

a week and then you could work on the weekend. And then they said, well, if you want to swap days

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