190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
The Michael Shermer Show
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Free Speech Has Fair Weather Friends
Sally Kohn: Free speech is never popular among majorities, because they're th who get to decide. When conservatives were in charge and able to read the riot act to any one who as deemed to be a communist or progressive, they did that cause they had the power. She says free speech salways the friend of the person who is socially marginalized and weak at any given moment. And means on a college campus where you've got overpowering numbers of progressives and only a few conservatives, for example, the conservatives are going to say, we need free speech,. she writes.
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