Why the Left Needs Its Own Reckoning

You're listening to The Michael Sherman Show. Eric Heinze, professor of law and humanities at Queen Mary University in London. He's the author of The Most Human Right, Why Free Speech is Everything. You can imagine I like that book. uh as a free speech fundamentalist, as it were, uh, among other books, and he's published over a hundred articles and it's been featured in radio and television and other media around the world.

His new book is, here it is, Coming Clean, The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left. Now after I had Christopher Rufo on the show, I got some pushback going, hey, you gotta have somebody that's not on the right. Okay, I gather my guest today, Eric. Nice to have you on here. You are not from the right.

You're not a mega right or a conservative. I gather from reading your book, but um welcome to the show and maybe uh maybe start there. What is what's your story? How'd you get into uh all this stuff and political science and law and all that? And then what what is your position on these things?

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