{"podcast":{"title":"To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes","slug":"to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870","podcast_index_feed_id":7201870,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/67a407e5340a5590cd2953ad","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/to-the-contrary","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/67a407e5340a5590cd2953ad/1779282218257-85582166-fea1-4b59-aeb0-5225884ca0a1.jpeg","author":"Charlie Sykes","episode_count":223,"summary":"You are not the crazy ones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T08:22:27.374404+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870"},"episode":{"title":"The Strangest Week (Plus the Attack on Free Speech)","slug":"the-strangest-week-plus-the-attack-on-free-speech","published_at":"2026-04-11T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/the-strangest-week-plus-the-attack-on-free-speech","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870","url":"https://shows.acast.com/to-the-contrary/episodes/69d94ba379a641a1f3319321","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67a407e5340a5590cd2953ad/e/69d94ba379a641a1f3319321/media.mp3","summary":"Sarah McLaughlin is a Senior Scholar of Global Expression at FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), and author of Authoritarians in the Academy. She joins Charlie to explore the global threats to free speech, especially with recent developments in Turkey, the UK, and Australia, and their implications for free expression in the US. Also, Charlie summarizes one of the strangest weeks we've witnessed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Sarah McLaughlin is a Senior Scholar of Global Expression at FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), and author of Authoritarians in the A…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3060,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/episodes/the-strangest-week-plus-the-attack-on-free-speech/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/the-strangest-week-plus-the-attack-on-free-speech.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}