The Canceling of the American Mind
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Author and free speech advocate, Greg Lukianoff, discusses cancel culture, the fate of free speech on campus, the Israel/Hamas conflict and his new book, "The Canceling of the American Mind". Check out https://www.thefire.org/ and support the right to individual expression.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Are you looking around lately at protests of various kinds, at people pulling down posters of hostages, of all the angst, anger, rage, misunderstanding, disinformation that is going on between the two sides of this Middle Eastern conflict and asking |
| 0:22.0 | yourself, how the hell did we get here? Well, I think we can turn to one author, and he's also a |
| 0:29.0 | lawyer and the president of fire, which he will explain in a moment, to explain a little bit about |
| 0:35.5 | how we got here and why it has gotten so out of control, |
| 0:38.6 | but that there might be some hope, too. |
| 0:40.9 | We've got to cling to that. |
| 0:42.2 | That's next. |
| 0:43.6 | Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:49.9 | Greg Lugianov has written a number of books about what's going on with the American mind. |
| 0:56.1 | The mind. |
| 0:57.4 | Not the brain, the mind. |
| 1:00.0 | Unlearning liberty. |
| 1:01.7 | Campus censorship in the end of American debate. |
| 1:04.7 | That was a work from 2012. |
| 1:07.6 | Freedom from speech, 2014. |
| 1:22.9 | The coddling of the American mind. how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure that he wrote with Jonathan Haight in 2018, and now the canceling of the American mind. |
| 1:40.5 | And these are all so important and pivotal in the way that we look at what the heck is going on, especially on campuses of higher learning, the colleges and universities that are turning out people who are willing to support Hamas and say defund the police. |
| 1:47.2 | So let's get into it with this wonderful writer, lawyer, and again, he's fighting for free speech on campus in America. And it's not a pretty picture, but it's one that we have to look at. |
| 1:54.3 | Greg Lukianov is next. |
| 2:08.0 | Well, America is at a tipping point. It's Michelle Tofoya to tell you about a new movie you really have to see. Dinesh DeSuzza's movie, Police State, exposes the government's relentless |
| 2:14.7 | persecution of the conservative MAGA movement. |
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