In this live panel at Harvard University, Dave Rubin, host of the Rubin Report, Bret Weinstein, formerly a professor at Evergreen State College, and Steve Simpson, director of legal studies at the Ayn Rand Institute, discuss the current state of free speech in America.
Yaron Brook's previous videos on The Rubin Report have garnered more than 300,000 views in the year they've been online. Now Brook has returned with a new interview, being released in parts beginning with "Morality, Religion and Free Speech."
In a recent panel discussion on threats to free speech, Dave Rubin and Steve Simpson discussed the “punch a Nazi” meme. Here’s the short video along with a transcript.
“The folks at UCLA gave me a list of the topics we’re allowed to talk about tonight,” joked Dave Rubin, creator and host of The Rubin Report, and moderator of this panel on current threats to free speech on college campuses.
College used to be grounded in the inviolate principle that each of us should confront new ideas, speak our minds and learn. Has that time passed? This year alone we have seen a riot at U.C. Berkeley and violence at Middlebury College over controversial speakers. Instead of “express yourself,” a new view seems to be taking hold: “Suppress yourself — or I’ll do it for you.” What is happening to free speech on campus?
