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FreeSpeech vs Hate Speech: Interview with Stanley Fish

How do we deal with speech that incites violence? What about media that belittles and muzzles those it disagrees with it? How do we argue well when people are so angry in the board room, courtroom or bedroom?

I have the honor of having Stanely Fish the author of “What Works and Doesn’t Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom,” “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too” (1994); and “Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change” (1995).  Fish is also most recently the author of 2019’s “The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump

”Join me at the “The END of FREE SPEECH: How to argue well in the age of TRUMP and TWITTER : Interview with author and speaker, Stanley Fish.”  <–go to that  link https://fb.me/e/1VPKkL32D 
Sign up ASAPThis great event will be on January 26th at 11am CST. I will be interviewing Stanely

Here is a link to his essay “NO FREE SPEECH” on this issue.

 It will be on FaceBook Live. (No you don’t have to have Facebook to access it, but it helps).  The link will be available soon, but mark your calendars! His full bio is belowProfessor Fish Distinguished Visiting Professor at The John Marshall Law School from 2000 through 2002 and professor at College of Law from Chicago, where he most recently served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1959) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University (1960; 1962). He has previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley (1962-74); Johns Hopkins University (1974-85), where he was the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities; and Duke University, where he was Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of Law (1986-1998). From 1993 through 1998 he served as Executive Director of Duke University Press. Dr. Fish served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The John Marshall Law School from 2000 through 2002.

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