
About this episode
In this episode, David and Sarah continue their August tradition of looking outside the world of legal nerdery with Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of the book The Constitution of Knowledge. Rauch has been warning about the dangers to free speech for a long time. What is the state of free speech? And how much of a threat is illiberalism?
Show Notes:
-Rauch’s book The Constitution of Knowledge
-Rauch’s book Kindly Inquisitors
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