Issues Under Fire: Pamela Geller Crusade Against Muslims Knows No Bounds
Every once in awhile, some goofy character comes along, heating up a social controversy for cable news providers to...
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Issued Under Fire: Did Charlie Hebdo Cross the Invisible Line
Forced to ponder the world's latest and most dangerous dilemma, we'll open this tenth season of Issues Under fire by...
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Episode 15 – An Army of Involuntary Spies and a Nation of Suspects
We’re back with it all: length and girth, light and dark, and the good, the bad and the ugly, as we go beyond the...
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Episode 12 – Take Back Your Power: The Reckless Stupidity of So-Called 'Smart Meters'
OH MY GOD, IT’S HUGE!!! We’re back with our first (and definitely last!) almost four hour-long show, including news...
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Episode 11 – Version 2.0: New Beginnings
We’ve been away almost 3 months. Have you been sat, pining for us at the door, or didn’t you even notice we were...
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Episode 10 – It’s the End of Free Speech (Give or Take)! Some Solutions and Alternatives
Our last 8 discussion topics have focussed on the erosion of our right to free speech. This week we flip things,...
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Episode 8 – Men Spooning Men? That Burdens my Religion!
Join us for our mix of news, banter, discussion and music! This week your hosts, now “older men” apparently, get...
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Episode 7 – From Princes to Pundits - Free Speech and Discriminatory Language
News and reflections as usual, and we near the end of our current topic; this week wrapping up our look at...
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Episode 6 – Insulting and Offending and Defining Racism
Along with our usual banter and a look at recent news stories, our Free Speech topic on the right to ‘insult and...
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Episode 5 – Let There Be Lawyers! Religious 'Hatred' and the Right to Insult and Offend
How does insulting and causing offence to others fit into our right to free speech? Sandwiched between everything...
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Episode 4 – Is that Free Speech in your Trousers?
It’s a lively and slightly longer than usual show this week as we look at cases where people have fallen foul of the...
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Episode 3 – Free Speech in a Virtual World
In our continuing discussion on Free Speech, this episode centres mainly on why free speech is important, and the...
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In Episode 2: Reflections on our last episode and the good and bad we’ve learnt from it. A Pavlovian-solution to...
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Welcome to your new Home Sometimes things just don’t work out as they are intended. With all the Occupy Wall...
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Episode 13 – Protests And Douchebaggery
…there surely is enough of each to go around. How much fun is it to make fun of the Occupy WallStreet...
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What's next at the Supreme Court?
Kenji Yoshino of the New York University School of Law and Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law preview...
Assessing the new wave of campus protests … What the students get right and wrong about free speech … A...
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The First Amendment speech debate on college campuses
Erwin Chemerinsky and Greg Lukianoff join National Constitution Center scholar in residence Michael Gerhardt to...
Higher Education, Political Correctness, and Woodrow Wilson
Richard Epstein responds to the controversy over Woodrow Wilson’s legacy at Princeton, and examines whether students...
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com