Jonathan Zimmerman on Free Speech and Why You Should Give a Damn - Honest Offense 61

Jonathan Zimmerman is the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is one of the foremost education historians working today. He is also the author of "Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn," which features drawings by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson.

We discuss the importance of free speech in giving a voice to the powerless, Judge Learned Hand and the Spirit of Liberty, listening to people you disagree with, censorship under Abraham Lincoln, and much more.

Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Speech-Should-Give-Damn/dp/1952536103

00:00 Introduction
1:45 Mary Beth Tinker and the black armband
6:55 The allure of tribalism
14:30 The spirit of liberty and principles vs. law
17:40 Where schools fail
20:30 How the book came to be
26:00 Censorship under Lincoln
31:10 The bipartisan nature of censorship
36:20 How censorship harms learning
39:45 Listening to people you disagree with
45:10 The dehumanizing effects of politicization

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