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Kennedy Saves the World

Kennedy Saves Your Free Speech

Kennedy Saves the World

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4.5813 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kennedy sits down with Senior Editor at Reason and author of Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, Robby Soave to discuss controversy over the First Amendment on college campuses.  Later, Robby outlines why university faculty have lost power relative to students and administrators and how this is impacting schools around the nation. He also shares his experience as a Libertarian in college working for a progressive student newspaper.  Follow Kennedy on Twitter: @KennedyNation  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:08.9

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0:11.4

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0:13.5

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0:15.8

Thank you. Welcome to this episode of Kennedy saves the world, and today, hopefully, we're going to save your free speech.

0:41.1

One of my very favorite guests on my Fox Business show is a senior editor at Reason.

0:46.0

He is a thoughtful and brilliant libertarian who writes a lot in the space about free speech, in particular on college campuses.

0:56.7

He has a book that you must read now.

1:03.0

It's called Panic Attack Young Radicals in the Age of Trump. And he traveled all across the country documenting what was going on in terms of thought and speech suppression, which as libertarians,

1:12.6

we were raised is a very bad thing.

1:14.8

You want a freedom of ideas.

1:17.5

You want ideas and thoughts to associate.

1:20.9

So they multiply and come up with even better ideas.

1:23.9

And that has not happened.

1:29.6

And it has been a very dismal decade at least where the thought police are now fully in charge in these academic snowflake factories that we call colleges and universities.

1:36.3

And it has a lot of people, especially parents, wondering if they need to rethink how their kids

1:41.7

jump into higher education because they can come back, changed people,

1:47.6

and they tend to make things worse for those who disagree with them when they have these

1:53.8

newfound views. And so much of the push in higher ed is for correct thinking. It is not for

2:00.7

free thinking. And that ed is for correct thinking. It is not for free thinking, and that ultimately

2:03.1

is a very slippery and dangerous slope. Robbie Suave, that very author, he's with me now. Robbie,

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