Tales from the Free Speech Foxhole

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

David French graciously guest-hosts in Jonah’s place on today’s program, wherein he has a long-ranging conversation with a longtime friend , Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. David and Greg discuss some of the silliest and most sinister examples of censorship regimes on college campuses from recent history, the history of the campus free speech movement stretching back to the 1950s, David’s memories of being a conservative at Harvard Law School, and the moment that Greg realized that “the students themselves had become the main proponents of censorship.” By coincidence, it’s our second Remnant in a row that is largely about modern cancel culture and censorship, rounded out by a conversation about the Snyder Cut. The only difference, really, is that David and Greg seriously dig it. Show Notes: - Greg Lukianoff of FIRE - The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt - Herbert Marcuse and campus free speech - Greg: “Speech Codes: The Biggest Scandal on College Campuses Today” - “Inappropriately directed laughter” - “Beirut on the Charles” - Greg’s first book, Unlearning Liberty - Indian River Community College bans The Passion of the Christ - The Eternally Radical Idea - The Ronald Zaccari Memorial Parking Garage - Greg debates Ken White on cancel culture - Greg talks about social justice graduate requirements in the Chronicle of Higher Education - Alexi McCammond fired from Teen Vogue over old tweets - Jonathan Rauch on how to tell if you’re being canceled - The Revolt of the Public, by Martin Gurri - Amazon pulls Ryan T. Anderson’s book on transgender issues Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.1	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.4	Can I please have your attention?
0:18.6	We have a great show for you tonight
0:20.6	You
0:27.6	Not touch your iPhone or your Android or whatever you're listening to this podcast on I know I'm not Jonah Goldberg
0:36.2	I'm David French, but even though this is not Jonah and you're already disappointed
0:41.6	I'm about to completely eradicate your disappointment because
0:45.4	This is going to be a great remnant pod why not because of me but because of my guest
0:51.8	I've got Greg Leakey on off here the president of the foundation for individual rights in education
0:57.8	My good friend one of my favorite people in the world and Greg and I are gonna have I don't know Greg
1:03.6	Is it too much to cast this as the definitive conversation?
1:08.8	About free speech on campus and cancel culture with a bonus of Snyder cut material
1:16.4	I think we're going far enough David. I think this is the platonic form of the truth of all those things
1:22.0	Oh, I well, you know, I I try to be modest in
1:26.8	So you're about to hear the platonic form of discussion about one of the most frustrating topics in
1:35.2	In America, which is free speech cancel culture free speech culture, okay?
1:40.6	So this this is something that I mean if you spend any time on Twitter sometimes it feels like this is 70% of Twitter's content
1:47.7	Yeah, he's arguing about those things
1:49.9	But what I wanted to do first was some was set the stage a little bit because one of the great things about having Greg on Greg is
1:57.9	As I said president of the foundation for individual rights and education before that legal director of the foundation for individual rights and education
2:05.2	Has been what was the first what when was the first year you dove into the free speech wars?
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