The Good Fight Club: Who’s a Hypocrite About Free Speech?
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Humanity produces more new knowledge every morning, literally, than in its first 200,000 years. And the free speech is part of that, but you need two other elements. You also need the discipline of fact. You can't just make stuff up, you can't bullshit your way through, and you need viewpoint diversity. You need enough different ideas in the room so that you get generative conflict, you can spot mistakes.
And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Welcome to this live recording of the Good Fight Club coming to you directly from the Global Free Speech Summit 2025 at Vanderbilt University. We have with us, please give them a big round of applause, Jacob Mchangama, who is the executive director of the future of free speech and the organizer of this conference. We have Rene Diuresta, a professor at the McCord School of Public Policy at Georgetown and author most recently of Invisible Rulers. And we have Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at Brookings and a contributing writer at the Atlantic.
And persuasion, that is correct. Thank you, Jonathan. So look, this summit is about free speech and we've had really interesting contributions, really great. Speeches and conversations about free speech over the last 24 hours, there is, I think, a question about free speech which is hard to escape at the moment, which is that virtually everybody who claims to care about free speech seems to be a bit of a hypocrite. That when you look at some of the loudest defenders of free speech on the right of American politics, whether that's somebody like Elon Musk or somebody like Donald Trump, suddenly they are demanding the
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