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The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-05-06 · 78 min · 12,609 words

Free Speech Under Fire? From Campus Protests to Deportations

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You're listening to The Michael Schirmer Show. Congratulations, here's the book. Well, this is what you were on for this is the Hardback edition. Uh, free speech, a history from Socrates to social media. Now out in paperback.

I think this week when we release this, it'll just be out. Congratulations on the paperback. Good timing on the subject, by the way. Unfortunat Unfortunately. Yeah.

Yeah, so maybe we start there instead of uh we can we can get into the deep history later. Current events. So you're uh last time I talked to you, you were in Europe, I guess. Now you've moved to America and we're living in uh Magaland. Yes.

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