I'm Not Sure What to Think, but I've Seen a Lot of Things That Aren't a Part of the Story.

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Philip Klein: People on all sides of factoram are re defining some of these words. He says stories that do not fit the rative don't get through. The most dangerous was if you had, let's say, a black writer who doesn't believe in critical race theory and he won't make it into the paper. "It really creates a lot of concern because a people's news is being curated in a way that is n no, really seems designed to further a specific agenda"

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).