At the university of mississippi , and we have stayed in touch quite a bit as we both moved on. We have always had a set of shared interests. Mike, it is great to be here with you today and to have a conversation on a subject that is extremely timely, which is responding to crisis. What needs to be said to the audience, they have seen all the evidence they can of the Current Crisis the coronavirus the economic downturn that will , be the serious issue for leaders, for everyday people. And it seems a good time to talk about two major 20thcentury crises. At the end of two world wars and how leaders responded, and to raise an issue about the light that might throw on the present about a framework for comparison. Mike, youre one of the people to talk to about. There are too many of your books to list for the audience but i thought i would talk about the book, fighting the great war world war i, the blood of free men, the book about the liberation of paris in 1944. But two books for the aud
Prof. Reynolds hello and welcome to a second episode of lot 2020, Global Pandemic edition. The first class went pretty well. Law 2020. We are being recorded for cspan. For the folks at cspan, i am university of Tennessee College of law professor glenn harlan reynolds. This is our introductory law class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, true threats and we will get started on obscenity. We will be less socratic than today because the cspan people asked me to be. Is textbook we are using constitutional law. Its a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. It is going just fine. Today we talk about free speech and we havent talked about it we have talked about equal protection, race discrimination, gender, and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech highly. To the extent they talk about it, they saw as mostly saw it as mostly poli
Welcome to all of the viewers out there joining us. Its a great pleasure to talk to my friend and onetime colleague , who is a professor of history at the army war college. Mike and i were actually colleagues mike, this is going back a ways. 2006 or so in the History Department at the university of southern mississippi. But we have stayed in touch over the years. We have both moved on to other things. Weve always had a set of shared interests. I am glad two to speak you on the shared crisis. The audience has seen the current crisis, they coronavirus crisis, the economic downturn, t will be a serious issue and it seems like a good time to talk about a 20th century crisis. Mike, you are one of the people to talk to about this. Theres too many of your book seared to list for the audience, but i thought i would mention finding the great war, your history world war i, the blood book you wrotee about the liberation of paris. I think for our audience it will be of great interest, your concise
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Here we are viewed here we are. The first class went pretty well. We are being recorded for cspan. For the folks at cspan, i am university of Tennessee College of law professor glenn harlan reynolds. This is our standard law class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, true threats and will get started on obscenity. We will be less socratic than usual because the cspan people asked me to be. Here is the textbook we are using, constitutional law, a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. It is going just fine. We have been talking about free speech, equal protection, race discrimination, gender and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech very highly. To the extent they talked about it, they saw it as mostly political, more than artistic or expressive. The interesting thing about the First Amendment is the courts did little with it