Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech

It does kind of morally offend me. The fact that Trump basically said to the people of Iran, you stand up, you know, rebel against this dictatorship, we're gonna back you up. And a lot of people got killed. I mean there are estimates that like thirty thousand people were killed. I don't know how accurate that is, but people are still being executed. A white male is I think like 20 times more likely to be shot dead by a cop than a black female. There are people on the left who really quite honestly believe that, you know, uh white people almost never get shot by cops. In fact, the majority of people who get shot by cops are are white. How is it that that everyone from Putin to the Russian watchers and the United States experts all thought it would be over in weeks if they actually invaded they did here we are come over four years longer than World War Two for Russia? It's crazy. Did Putin's inner circle just lie to him and say everything's Yeah, I think I well one story that I've heard that I think is quite credible is that um Hey everybody, it's Michael Shermer. It's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. My guest today, our returning champion. She's been on before is Kathy Young. She's a writer at the Bulwark.

She's also a columnist for Newsday and a contributing editor to Reason Magazine. Previously she was associate editor at Ark Digital and a columnist for the Boston Globe, the Detroit News, and Clear Real Clear Politics. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Week, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quillette. The new republic and elsewhere. Young was born in Moscow and came to the United States with their family in nineteen eighty. And is the author of two books, and I'm going to go to the case Fire. Why women and men must join forces.

To achieve true equality and Growing up in Moscow, memories of a Soviet girlhood. She has a B in English from Rutgers University. You can find her on X. Formerly known as Twitter at Kathy Young Sixty Three. I'm guessing, Kathy, that must be w when you were born or something significant happened in sixty three. Oh, if only I was born in sixty three. I'm almost ten years older than you. How about that? Well thanks. Well, so um yeah, I read your your uh Boston Globe uh piece. I thought maybe that would be a good place to start. Yeah, I um

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