In this episode, I review this article that I wrote three years ago about the benefits of upholding liberal principles. That article contains this video of me being extremely bored at a Senate confirmation hearing:
First, They Come for the Assholes -- ALWAYS
The Trump administration is working to craft a rationale for detaining Mahmoud Khalil, one of the leaders of the protests at Columbia last spring. But while they were doing that, Trump blurted out this:
We Seem to Be Re-Learning Free Speech Principles From Scratch
Watching the United States — the home of the First Amendment — struggle to respond to student protests has been like watching Albert Einstein struggle to complete the “get Grimace to the fries” maze on the back of a Happy Meal. How did we get here? How did things devolve so badly that pretty-straight-forward free speech issues are treated like unsolvable puzzles? I’m one of those highly punchable “it’s complicated” dweebs, but for once, I’m singing a different tune: This is actually
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