Views on First
by Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Latest episode
Extended Preview: “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment”
Extended Preview: “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment”
About this podcast
“Views on First” is the Knight First Amendment Institute’s flagship podcast. Each season, we invite leading legal scholars, practitioners, tech policy experts, and others to join us in conversations about some of the most pressing First Amendment issues in the ever-shifting expressive landscape of the digital age.
“Views on First: Season 1” won a 2024 Anthem Award Silver Medal and 2023 Signal Listener’s Choice Award and a Signal Silver Medal.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 23 episodes
- Extended Preview: “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment” · 3 minCristian Farias, host of the new podcast by the Knight Institute, “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment,” shares his goal for the show: “to chronicle in real time the…
- A Preview of “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment” · 1 minThe Knight Institute is launching a new podcast on May 16, with new episodes every Friday. Look for “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment” wherever you get podcasts…
- Speech & the Border E5: The Free Speech Costs of Banning TikTok · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 5From the first Trump administration to the Biden administration, the fight to ban TikTok has cut across conventional partisan and ideological lines. In this episode, host Ramya…
- Speech & the Border E4: Spyware—The Authoritarians' Favorite Tool · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 4It's not new for repressive governments to go after journalists. What is new is the ease with which they can do so — by turning journalists’ own phones against them. Host Alex…
- Speech & the Border E3: Singled Out & Searched · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 3Citizen or not—anyone can be searched at the border. Border agents may search messages, photos, and other intimate data on your personal phone, tablet, or other devices. Host…
- Speech & the Border E2: The Digital Surveillance Dragnet · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 2Dating back to the Obama administration, the U.S. government has been using its authority over the border to justify the surveillance of visitors’ and immigrants’ social media…
- Speech & the Border E1: What are we so afraid of? · 51 min · Season 3 Episode 1From the war on anarchism to President Trump’s extreme vetting policies, the U.S. government’s practice of using the border as a justification to exclude ideas considered…
- A Preview of Views on First: Speech & the Border · 4 min · Season 3We’ve all been hearing a lot about “the border”—in news headlines, candidates’ speeches, and political debates. On our third season of “Views on First: Speech & the Border” we…
- War & Speech E9: The University’s Role in Political and Social Action · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 9Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman talks with Jameel Jaffer about whether and when universities should issue statements about social and political issues, and about the pros and…
- War & Speech E8: Anti-Discrimination Law and the Protests on Campus · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 8Cornell Law School’s Michael Dorf talks with Jameel Jaffer about how federal anti-discrimination law is shaping universities’ responses to pro-Palestinian protests on campus, and…
- War & Speech E7: The War and the Platforms · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 7Deborah Brown of Human Rights Watch and Evelyn Douek of Stanford Law talk with Jameel Jaffer about the role that social media platforms are playing in shaping, suppressing, and…
- War & Speech E6: The Crisis at Columbia · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 6Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, and Isabella Ramirez, Editor in Chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator, talk with Jameel Jaffer about the crisis at Columbia…
- War & Speech E5: The War Comes for Academic Freedom · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 5Jameel Jaffer returns to the issue of free speech on campus with Jeannie Suk Gersen, professor of law at Harvard, contributing writer to the New Yorker, founding member of the…
- War & Speech E4: Campus Speech, Double Standards, and Discrimination · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 4Jameel Jaffer returns to the issue of free speech on campus with Will Creeley, legal director at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). They talk about…
- War & Speech E3: A Climate of Repression and Fear · 18 min · Season 2 Episode 3Radhika Sainath, senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, talks with Jameel Jaffer about the climate for speech supportive of Palestinians, defining discrimination, and the…
- War & Speech E2: Campus Speech in the Shadow of the War · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 2Jameel Jaffer talks with Eugene Volokh, distinguished professor of law at UCLA and soon-to-be senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, about free speech on campus in the shadow…
- War & Speech E1: How Repressive Is This Moment, Really? · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 1Jameel Jaffer talks with Genevieve Lakier, professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and one of the country’s leading theorists of free speech, about the climate…
- S1 E5: The 1A A-Bomb · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 5Social media platforms have evaded heavy regulation on their content moderation practices so far, but the jig may very well be up. Many U.S. states are considering enacting laws…
- S1 E4: Our Corporate Speech Overlords · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 4Social media platforms make more decisions about free speech every minute than the Supreme Court has made in more than two hundred years. So the values and systems adopted by…
- S1 E3: Old Doctrine, New Tricks · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 3Over time, the First Amendment has meant lots of different things to a lot of different people. In this episode, with University of Chicago law professor Genevieve Lakier by her…
