Ep. 38 “After Charlottesville” w/ former ACLU President Nadine Strossen

Nadine Strossen knows the dangers of Nazism. Her father was
liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp one day before
he was scheduled to be sterilized. If American soldiers arrived a
day later, Strossen would never become the first female president
of the ACLU. She wouldn’t even be alive.


After Charlottesville, there has been vigorous debate about the
so-called limits of free speech. Should white supremacist and
neo-Nazi ideologies enjoy full First Amendment rights? And if so,
should civil liberties groups, like the ACLU, defend them?


On today’s episode of So to Speak, Strossen discusses the fallout
from Charlottesville and argues forcefully that, yes, even
neo-Nazis deserve free speech and assembly rights ― and yes, the
ACLU should defend those rights. She believes the best way to
preserve a free society is to not compromise the rights
guaranteed by a free society. She is authoring a book on this
very topic due out next year titled, “HATE: Why we should resist
it with free speech, not censorship.”


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