PREVIEW - The Sunday Podcast: Our interview with Greg Lukianoff.
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On today's Sunday podcast, Senior Editor Will Kaback interviews Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) They discuss the organization's mission to defend free speech across the United States, the challenges posed by partisan politics, and the implications of recent cases like that of Mahmoud Khalil. He contrasts the American approach to free speech with that of Europe, emphasizing the importance of protecting offensive speech in a diverse society. Lukianoff also addresses the impact of political administrations on free speech and academic freedom, and talks about his upcoming book, 'The Cancellation of the American Mind.'
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we |
| 0:54.8 | get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my |
| 0:58.8 | take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. If you have followed the controversies around free speech |
| 1:04.7 | and cancel culture on college campuses over the past decade, you've probably heard of fire, |
| 1:10.1 | the foundation for individual rights and expression. The group is a decade, you've probably heard of Fire, the foundation for individual rights |
| 1:11.8 | and expression. |
| 1:13.1 | The group is a non-profit civil liberties organization that was originally founded with a mission |
| 1:17.9 | of protecting free speech rights on college campuses, but recently it has broadened its |
| 1:22.7 | focus to freedom of speech issues throughout American society. |
| 1:26.9 | In the mainstream press, |
| 1:27.9 | Fire is sometimes described as a conservative or libertarian organization, but that label feels |
| 1:33.4 | short-sighted sometimes. While the group has defended countless conservative students, |
| 1:38.8 | teachers, and organizations in cases involving freedom of speech, it's also defended progressive causes and figures. |
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