300th Episode: How To Fight Censorship with Nadine Strossen

300th Episode: How To Fight Censorship with Nadine Strossen

Author: The Atlas Society April 30, 2026 Duration: 56:18
What are the most powerful arguments against free speech, and why do they all fall short? For our 300th episode, The Atlas Society is excited to welcome back one of America’s foremost civil liberties advocates, Nadine Strossen. Co-author of War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail, Strossen examines the flaws in pro-censorship arguments and offers a compelling defense of the right that is central to both individual liberty and our democratic self-government.  A constitutional law professor and the ACLU’s first female president from 1991 to 2008, Strossen has been named one of America’s "100 Most Influential Lawyers" by the National Law Journal. Her return to Objectively Speaking deepens a conversation she began with us around her earlier book, HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship—and her argument is more timely than ever: the cure for harmful speech is more speech, not silence.

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