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Michael sherworshimy: Barry wise and byon bartning. Barry is an opinion writer and editor at the wall street journal, where i first met her as i review for them. She famously departed there with a very public statement that you can find on line. Byan bartning is an odra produr vester in new york city. He wrote about how wokness invaded his children's private riverdale school. The two of them founding their new organization fair which we're going to discuss on the podcast.

Shermer, Weiss, and Bartning discuss: why we need the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) when we have the ACLU, the SPLC, etc.; Richard Dawkins canceled by the AHA; hate speech as violence; Liberal and Conservative attitudes toward free speech and how they shifted; private vs. public speech; government censorship vs. cancel culture; anti-Semitism on the Left and the Right; QAnon; Israel and the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions); What happened at The New York Times?; why free speech is foundational to other rights; and why we need to judge people based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin (or any other immutable characteristic).