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So to Speak podcast: ‘Can free speech be progressive?’

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we ask the question, “can free speech be progressive?”
Our guest is . He is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown Law and the author of the much-discussed 2018 Columbia Law Review article “”
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