#368 — Freedom & Censorship

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast, this is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this you're not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense Podcast, you'll need to subscribe at Sam Harris.org. There you'll also find our
0:24.9	scholarship program where we offer free accounts to anyone who can't afford one. We
0:29.0	don't run ads on the podcast and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers.
0:34.0	So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. Today I'm speaking with Greg Lucianov.
0:47.0	Greg is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
0:52.0	The acronym is Fire. He earned his
0:55.4	undergraduate degree from American University and his law degree from
0:59.8	Stanford. And he worked for the ACLU of Northern California and other organizations before joining
1:06.0	Fire in 2001.
1:07.6	And he's one of America's most passionate defenders of free speech. He has written about the issue in the New York Times,
1:15.8	the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post. He has produced documentaries on the subject.
1:21.7	He also wrote along with Jonathan Hight the codling of the American
1:25.1	mind and most recently he wrote along with Ricky Schlott the canceling of the
1:31.3	American mind. Cancer culture undermines trust, destroys institutions,
1:36.0	and threatens us all.
1:38.0	But there is a solution.
1:39.0	And that is the topic of today's conversation.
1:42.0	Craig and I discuss the origins of today's conversation.
1:42.5	Craig and I discuss the origins of political correctness, free speech and its boundaries,
1:48.0	the bedrock principle of the First Amendment, technology and the marketplace of ideas, epistemic anarchy, social media and cancel culture,
1:57.0	comparisons to McCarthyism, self-censorship by professors, cancellations from the left and the right and how they differ,
2:06.2	justified cancellations, the Hunter Biden laptop story, how to deal with Trump in the media, the deplorable state of higher education in America,
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