Dan and Richard discuss Jeff Kosseff's timely and important book about lies and free speech in our current era. The book uses Oliver Wendel Holmes admonition about falsely yelling fire in a theatre to explore how free speech is protected in America, but how it can also be controlled. Kosseff defends a robust protection for free speech, yet he recognizes the problem of misinformation and examines how we can do more to protect ourselves from the ubiquitous lying that seems to be occurring.
Link to book: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12911/liar-crowded-theater
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