About So to Speak
We are a podcast community that explores free speech: not just free speech’s applicability under the law, but also its place in our life and culture.
“Fish don't know they're in water,” wrote author David Foster Wallace to illustrate how some of life's most important realities are hard to see. Likewise with free speech: It's not top of mind for most of us.
But, at its core, freedom of speech is what enables us to be who we are and to speak our mind. Its presence — or lack thereof — shapes art, politics, the economy, human progress, our sense of self, and our relationship with others. “Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom,” wrote the late Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo.