#368 — Freedom & Censorship

Sam Harris speaks with Greg Lukianoff about free speech and
cancel culture. They discuss the origins of political
correctness, free speech and its boundaries, the bedrock
principle of the First Amendment, technology and the marketplace
of ideas, epistemic anarchy, social media and cancellation,
comparisons to McCarthyism, self-censorship by professors,
cancellation from the Left and Right, justified cancellations,
the Hunter Biden laptop story, how to deal with Trump in the
media, the state of higher education in America, and other
topics.


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