This along with these Television Companies support c span2 as a public service. At the end of his extraordinary conversation, Salman Rushdie challenged us to defend the First Amendment principle we must protect the thought we hate as Justice Owens called it and in americas speech can only be banned if it is intended to and likely to cause imminent violence and thats the principle that comes from the brandenburg case articulated by brandeis and whitney. It makes america the most speech protected country in the whole world. And on the first panel we will explore the history of that idea with three of americas greatest historians of freedom of speech. I am so excited for the conversation. We have the future of free speech project and we have steve solomon from nyu and i want to jump right in and first say that your book, free speech, history from socrates to social media, i think is the clearest and best history of the evolution of the idea that i have read. I want to begin by asking you
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