Greg Lukianoff On Free Speech Fights
From The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan
April 24, 2026 · 38 min
About this episode
Greg Lukianoff discusses various aspects of free speech and its challenges in contemporary society.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Greg is a lawyer, journalist, and author. He’s the president of FIRE — the best free-speech group out there. His books include The Coddling of the American Mind (written with Jonathan Haidt), The Canceling of the American Mind (written with Rikki Schlott), and War On Words (written with Nadine Strossen). You can find him on Substack at The Eternally Radical Idea . For two clips of our convo — on whether Biden or Trump has been worse on free speech, and how to decrease wokeness on campus — head to our YouTube page . Other topics: his Russian dad’s 100th birthday the day we taped; how he fled the Soviets as an orphan and came to America speaking 7 languages; his British mom coming over as a nanny; growing up among immigrants in Danbury as both a football player and nerd; studying 1st Amendment law at Stanford; the wane of gifted-and-talented programs (which Greg once taught); the declining support for free speech; family breakdown and protecting kids from bad speech; the perils of social media; race wars on X; censorship against porn and age-restriction laws; where Greg disagrees with Jon…
People in this episode
Host: Andrew Sullivan
Guest: Greg Lukianoff
Topics covered
- free speech
- censorship
- social media
- 1st Amendment
- cultural issues
- immigration
- education
Keywords
- free speech
- censorship
- social media
- 1st Amendment
- cultural issues
- education
- immigration
- wokeness
- politics
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: FIRE
Books & works: The Coddling of the American Mind, The Canceling of the American Mind, War On Words
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