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So to Speak podcast: ‘Can free speech be progressive?’

Nico Perrino

April 4, 2019

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we ask the question, “can free speech be progressive?”

Our guest is Louis Michael Seidman. He is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown Law and the author of the much-discussed 2018 Columbia Law Review article “Can Free Speech Be Progressive?”

Click here for a transcript of the podcast.

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