100 Years of Free Speech
Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University and Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago law professor and noted first amendment scholar, co-editors of The Free Speech Century (Oxford University Press, 2018), talk about American courts and free speech from Oliver Wendell Holmes' 1919 Schenck vs United States opinion through today.
"We have 100 years of jurisprudence of free speech, it took us 50 years to get it to where it is today…. In those 50 years it’s been the Supreme Court that’s refined this doctrine," says @Columbia's President Bollinger.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 5, 2019
"What we take today as America’s principle of freedom of speech and press is relatively new… it’s counter-intuitive and fragile. There’s no reason to think that the U.S. is invulnerable to the rise in intolerance that we’ve seen in past periods," @Columbia's Pres. Bollinger.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 5, 2019
