Senior Fellow, FIRE; Former President, ACLU
Nadine Strossen, senior fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression) and professor emerita of New York Law School, was the national American Civil Liberties Union President 1991-2008. An internationally acclaimed free speech expert, her books include Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023) and HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018).
Nick Gillespie moderates a conversation with civil liberties advocate Nadine Strossen, constitutional lawyer and author Glenn Greenwald and political commentator Brandi Kruse on free speech. From battles over campus protests to cutting federal funds for universities to restricted press access at White House events, the debaters consider what the First Amendment means in the Trump 2.0 presidency.
Ideas Festival supports local booksellers. Titles below can be purchased at Elliott Bay Book Company.
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The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival is a full-day event in downtown Seattle, featuring live podcast recordings and studio television tapings from The Atlantic, NPR, CNN, Vox, PBS, Crooked Media, The Gist, Open to Debate, and more. Watch live as journalists, newsmakers, and thought leaders from around the world take on hot topics making news and the biggest issues of our time. Plus, community meetups, speaker meet-and-greets, micro-sessions, food trucks, DJs, and artists.
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