Do You Stand Up and Say, No, I'm Not Doing That

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i had a sense that there was a kind of an element of anti semitism in, ah, this woke culture. And since you wrote that book, not two years ago, that came out, ah, this seems to have gotten worse. Yea, when i wrote the book, i would say anti semitis in america was at the speed of, like, more like the horse and buggy. And now it feels something more like the bullet train. That's because anti sematism is a conspiracy theory. In which jews play whatever a given civilization sort of defines its most disgusting qualities. So let me give you a good example, just connecting it to the woke left right now

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).