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“Free Speech and its Limits: Should it protect even antisemitic hate speech, advocacy of terrorism, and social media disinformation?” featuring Nadine Strossen in conversation with Jeffrey Toobin.
Former ACLU president and First Amendment expert Nadine Strossen will discuss her new book, Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know®, with best-selling author and TV legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
Copies will be available at the discount price of $10 (correct change appreciated).
Come prepared with your most pressing questions – and arguments – about any free speech issues, so we can all enjoy our First Amendment freedoms!
All are invited to enjoy dessert, coffee and conversation about the local and national work of the ACLU at a short after-reception hosted by Beth & Chuck Lesnick. ACLU representatives will be on hand to answer questions and share information. Please RSVP to avlangas@acluct.org if you plan to attend the reception.
Nadine Strossen, New York Law School Professor Emerita and Senior Fellow at FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), was national President of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008. An internationally acclaimed free speech scholar and advocate, who regularly addresses diverse audiences and provides media commentary around the world, Strossen’s most recent books about free speech are: Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2023); and HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018), both published by Oxford University Press. She is also the Host and Project Consultant for Free To Speak, a 3-hour documentary film series distributed on public television in 2023. In 2023, Strossen received the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Judy Blume Lifetime Achievement Award for Free Speech.
Jeffrey Toobin is one of the most recognized and admired legal journalists in the country. On television, in best-selling books, and in magazines, he has covered all of the most dramatic legal controversies of the past three decades. His ninth book, “Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism,” was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2023. As the longtime legal analyst for CNN and previously for ABC News, as well as a staff writer for The New Yorker, Toobin has been a leading figure in coverage of the Supreme Court. His book, “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court,” was published in 2012 and was a New York Times best-seller. The Oath followed “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court,” which was also a best-seller and earned the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Prize for Nonfiction from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.