The Chilling of Speech

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"This isn't an orthodoxy that seeks to replace your, your personal philosophy," he says. "It's because the authority figures are mandating it t and in theyre making it clear you will be punished in some way if you transgress." The death of religion is directly tied into the rise of this movement, writes Frida Ghitis.

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).