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So to Speak podcast: What a summer ...

On today鈥檚 episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 Robert Shibley and Samantha Harris to discuss a whirlwind summer: FIREhas fielded a record number of requests for help, and this week the Department of Education鈥檚 much-anticipated new Title IX regulations go into effect. There鈥檚 also 鈥渃ancel culture.鈥
- FIRE鈥檚 recent cases
- by Greg Lukianoff and Adam Goldstein
- 鈥淚n memoriam: Professor Mike Adams, 1964-2020鈥 by Robert Shibley
- by Nick Cave
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