The Dig: Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib
Did you know the ACLU was founded as a labor organization allied with the IWW?
September 25, 2022
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September 25, 2022
The Dig: Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib
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<p>Featuring Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor organization allied with the IWW? Weinrib traces the rise of the modern civil liberties movement, and modern constitutional liberalism more broadly, from World War I through the New Deal. She explains how the ACLU went from defending free speech as a means to revolutionary ends to a liberal position exalting free speech as an end unto itself—including the anti-union speech of bosses and the political speech of corporations.</p>
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