Video: The State of Free Speech in America

Just how well do Americans understand the First Amendment? Should the First Amendment protect harmful or hateful words and expression?

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A panel of the nation’s leading free speech thinkers including Dr. Stanley Fish of the Cardozo School of Law, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education President Greg Lukianoff, Eric Posner of the University of Chicago Law School, and Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution discussed the state of free speech in America in a discussion moderated by the Constitution Center’s Jeffrey Rosen.

This video was recorded on March 25, 2014.