This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, August 11th, 2017. I'm Caleb Brown.

In his new book, The Soul of the First Amendment, attorney Floyd Abrams examines the many facets of the First Amendment and how it's been applied by courts.

We discussed campaign finance and the growing fights on college campuses over free expression.

Basically, it's anti-sensorial.

It's the government can't keep people from speaking, can't force them to speak, can't punish them for

their speech, and the overwhelming amount of circumstances in which speakers or writers are potentially

challenged.

Where does the government force people to speak?

Most of the totalitarian countries of the world.

In the United States, is there examples where the government forces people to speak?

Well, we've had cases in the courts in which compulsory responses, for example, and the Tarnillo case back in the 1970s.

Florida passed a law, which basically said if you have a, if you write an article criticizing a candidate, you have to let the candidate answer the article.

That would be an example of the newspaper being forced to speak.

Under the fairness doctrine, as it had existed, broadcasters were required to put on the supposed other side when they had people on speaking about matters of

public interest and controversy.

I mean there are a number of examples like that.

In the Citizens United case, obviously a very controversial case,

the 5 to 4 decision in the citizens united case was is the hotly

contested part but there was an eight to one decision there on the I this idea of

disclosure yes what do you feel there on this idea of disclosure?

Yes.

What do you feel about the idea of disclosure with respect to independent political

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