{"podcast":{"title":"Uncertain Things","slug":"uncertain-things-1365822","podcast_index_feed_id":1365822,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/55152.rss","website_url":"https://uncertain.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/55152/d5aa3021bd2e0c5c8c26c93af46f588a.jpg","author":"Uncertain Things","episode_count":115,"summary":"Everything is broken. Now what?","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T06:18:18.631352+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822"},"episode":{"title":"The Enemies of Free Speech (w/ Greg Lukianoff & Nadine Strossen)","slug":"the-enemies-of-free-speech-w-greg-lukianoff-nadine-strossen","published_at":"2025-05-29T23:25:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822/the-enemies-of-free-speech-w-greg-lukianoff-nadine-strossen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822","url":"https://uncertain.substack.com/p/greg-lukianoff-nadine-strossen","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/164704628/7afb30f6bb47620baddd5eae5581b7c6.mp3","summary":"Former ACLU President Nadine Strossen and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) President Greg Lukianoff join Adaam to discuss their upcoming book War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail . The three dig into what makes liberalism in general and free speech in particular so powerful, so radical, and so rare. Is too much information a danger for free speech? Why are some institutions resilient to ideological capture while others cave? Do generational tensions pose a threat to liberal values? What does it really mean to defend free speech? On the agenda: -Free speech is eternally radical (00:30) - The Skokie Affair made Adaam fall in love (10:47) -Generational tensions at the ACLU, or: maintaining institutional integrity (26:13 ) -Real liberalism is (and always was) hard (51:12) -Marketplace of Ideas vs. Pure Information Theory, or: the importance of knowing falsities (1:01:06) -AI and the problem of Too Much Information (1:10:02) -Blindspots (1:23:55) Show notes: -Greg’s Substack: The Eternally Radical Idea -Upcoming rerelease of Aryeh Neier’s Defending My Enemy with additional material by Nadine Art by Niv Tishbi Uncertain Things is hosted and produced by Adaam James Levin-Areddy and Vanessa M. Quirk. For more doomsday thoughts, subscribe to: uncertain.substack.com. Get full access to Uncertain Things at uncertain.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Former ACLU President Nadine Strossen and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) President Greg Lukianoff join Adaam to discuss their upco…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5047,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/uncertain-things-1365822/episodes/the-enemies-of-free-speech-w-greg-lukianoff-nadine-strossen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822/the-enemies-of-free-speech-w-greg-lukianoff-nadine-strossen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}