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Welcome to the Dissidents podcast from the Institute for Liberal Values (formerly the Counterweight Podcast), where we talk about how we can strive for a world in which freedom and reason are at the forefront of all human society.
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FSF Ep. 46: Free Speech Alone Isn't Enough: Sharpening Ideas Through Opposition | Lyell Asher (opens the original)
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"You don't really know how good a boxer you are until you face someone on the other side of the net." Facing opposition matters. This is the argument of Dr. Lyell Asher, who teaches at Lewis and Clark College and created the 15-part YouTube series Why Colleges Are Becoming Cults with Peter Boghossian. Lyell traces his free speech awakening to his father and Solzhenitsyn's A Warning to the West , but also to a rebellious middle school moment. When a teacher tried to stop flag burning, young Lyell
FSF Hot Takes: The Rise of Political Violence & Decline of Free Speech – Proximate & Root Causes (Part 2) (opens the original)
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"The president is not supposed to have so much power. It shouldn't make such a difference who actually wields the executive pen." Chris and Joia dive deep into several of the causes behind America's rising political violence, starting with an October 2025 Pew Research survey that asked Americans why they think violence is increasing—offering eight options from "Trump/MAGA rhetoric" to "social media" to "partisan polarization." But Chris and Joia argue these are merely proximate causes that miss
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