Ep. 49 “The Great Dissent” w/ Professor Thomas Healy

Was our modern First Amendment born out of a chance encounter on
a train bound for Boston in 1918?


On this episode of So to Speak, we speak with Seton Hall Law
Professor Thomas Healy. He argues that Supreme Court Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes’ unlikely run-in with Judge Learned Hand in
the summer of 1918 set off a series of events that culminated in
a new trajectory for the First Amendment in America.


Professor Healy is the author of “The Great Dissent: How Oliver
Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind — and Changed the History of Free
Speech in America.” The book explores how one man who claimed to
disdain all constitutional rights ended up breathing new meaning
into our first one.


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