Jeff Schechtman: Welcome to the WhoWhatWhy podcast. However, due to a constraint of resources, we are not always able to proofread them as closely as we would like and hope that you will excuse any errors that slipped through.) We try to ensure that these transcripts do not include errors.
(As a service to our readers, we provide transcripts with our podcasts. He discusses the difference between political and cultural speech, the role of the mainstream media versus social media, money as speech, hate speech, and the human tendency to shut down speech from the other side.īrettschneider also argues that the current Supreme Court’s talk of originalism is a mockery of the Constitution, and that the court may have recently crossed a legal Rubicon, which seriously undermines its own standing.
What’s actually at stake in defending democracy are the underlying values that it represents: the free exchange of ideas that allows us to reason, debate, and seek the truth - concepts at the heart of the Enlightenment, and the design elements of the Founders when they shaped the US constitution.īrettschneider sees free speech as perhaps the most fundamental precept of democracy, and explains why its infringement - be it by cancel culture or tyrants - makes democracy so vulnerable today. He is an expert on the US constitution, editor of the Penguin Liberty series, and a professor of constitutional law and politics at Brown University.īrettschneider argues that we should view democracy not just as a process, a tool of governance, a way of casting and counting votes.
In this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, we talk with professor Corey Brettschneider. When we say “democracy” is under threat in America, what is really being threatened? Often missing in the debate about “democracy threatened” is a simple but powerful notion: The best way to get at the truth is through a clash of ideas, driven by free and unfettered speech.
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