Progressive Radio Network

Freedom of speech

On today's Heart Of Mind, Radio for the New Millennium, host Kathryn Davis explores the truth about Whistleblower Protection with Michael McCray, Esq., author of Race, Power and Politics, The…
Most people took one of two sides with the Google manifesto of James Damore on the role of women in technology. He was either a…
I start this hour by describing an extraordinary attack on my free speech that is currently unfolding surrounding the Michelle Carter suicide-by-texting trial.   Please keep track…
Peter and Mickey spend most of the hour in conversation with attorney Caitlin Henry and sociologist Laleh Behbehanian; their topic is the rise in state…
David Talbot has authored books on US political history, and writes a column at the San Francisco Chronicle.
A year ago, preparing to teach my undergraduate free speech class I found myself questioning free speech fundamentalism. Struck by the unseemly reality of free…
For the first half of the program, Peter and Mickey discuss the conflict in Syria; their guest is independent journalist Eva Bartlett,
It has been demonstrated that when someone is lying, areas of the brain linked to decision-making are activated, which lights up on an fMRI scan…
USC foreign exchange student Ivan Tsang was the target of eggs and epithets earlier this week for doing nothing other than being Asian.  “Ching chang…
Not only has free speech become a four-letter word--profane, obscene, uncouth, not to be uttered in so-called public places--but in more and more cases, the…
Free speech is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who are easily offended, readily intimidated or who need everything wrapped…
n 2006 – years before ISIS replaced Al Qaeda as the New and Unprecedentedly Evil Villain – Newt Gingrich gave a speech in New Hampshire in which, as he put it afterward,…