Views on First
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
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“Views on First” is the Knight First Amendment Institute’s flagship podcast. Each season, we invite leading legal scholars, practitioners, tech policy experts, and others to join us in conversations about some of the most pressing First Amendment issues in the ever-shifting expressive landscape of the digital age.
“Views on First: Season 1” won a 2024 Anthem Award Silver Medal and 2023 Signal Listener’s Choice Award and a Signal Silver Medal.
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Recent Episodes
Extended Preview: “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment”
Cristian Farias, host of the new podcast by the Knight Institute, “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment,” shares his goal for the show: “to chronicle in real time the coordinated,…
A Preview of “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment”
The Knight Institute is launching a new podcast on May 16, with new episodes every Friday. Look for “The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment” wherever you get podcasts. “The Bully’s Pulpit”…
S3E5 Speech & the Border E5: The Free Speech Costs of Banning TikTok
From the first Trump administration to the Biden administration, the fight to ban TikTok has cut across conventional partisan and ideological lines. In this episode, host Ramya Krishnan explores the…
S3E4 Speech & the Border E4: Spyware—The Authoritarians' Favorite Tool
It's not new for repressive governments to go after journalists. What is new is the ease with which they can do so — by turning journalists’ own phones against them. Host Alex Abdo explores the…
S3E3 Speech & the Border E3: Singled Out & Searched
Citizen or not—anyone can be searched at the border. Border agents may search messages, photos, and other intimate data on your personal phone, tablet, or other devices. Host Ramya Krishnan hears…
S3E2 Speech & the Border E2: The Digital Surveillance Dragnet
Dating back to the Obama administration, the U.S. government has been using its authority over the border to justify the surveillance of visitors’ and immigrants’ social media accounts. Host Anna…
S3E1 Speech & the Border E1: What are we so afraid of?
From the war on anarchism to President Trump’s extreme vetting policies, the U.S. government’s practice of using the border as a justification to exclude ideas considered “dangerous” is as American…
S3 A Preview of Views on First: Speech & the Border
We’ve all been hearing a lot about “the border”—in news headlines, candidates’ speeches, and political debates. On our third season of “Views on First: Speech & the Border” we examine the…
S2E9 War & Speech E9: The University’s Role in Political and Social Action
Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman talks with Jameel Jaffer about whether and when universities should issue statements about social and political issues, and about the pros and cons of institutional…
S2E8 War & Speech E8: Anti-Discrimination Law and the Protests on Campus
Cornell Law School’s Michael Dorf talks with Jameel Jaffer about how federal anti-discrimination law is shaping universities’ responses to pro-Palestinian protests on campus, and about the tensions…
S2E7 War & Speech E7: The War and the Platforms
Deborah Brown of Human Rights Watch and Evelyn Douek of Stanford Law talk with Jameel Jaffer about the role that social media platforms are playing in shaping, suppressing, and distorting public…
S2E6 War & Speech E6: The Crisis at Columbia
Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, and Isabella Ramirez, Editor in Chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator, talk with Jameel Jaffer about the crisis at Columbia, and about the…
S2E5 War & Speech E5: The War Comes for Academic Freedom
Jameel Jaffer returns to the issue of free speech on campus with Jeannie Suk Gersen, professor of law at Harvard, contributing writer to the New Yorker, founding member of the Academic Freedom…
S2E4 War & Speech E4: Campus Speech, Double Standards, and Discrimination
Jameel Jaffer returns to the issue of free speech on campus with Will Creeley, legal director at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). They talk about “cancellations” before and…
S2E3 War & Speech E3: A Climate of Repression and Fear
Radhika Sainath, senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, talks with Jameel Jaffer about the climate for speech supportive of Palestinians, defining discrimination, and the “Palestine Exception” to…
S2E2 War & Speech E2: Campus Speech in the Shadow of the War
Jameel Jaffer talks with Eugene Volokh, distinguished professor of law at UCLA and soon-to-be senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, about free speech on campus in the shadow of the war in Israel…
S2E1 War & Speech E1: How Repressive Is This Moment, Really?
Jameel Jaffer talks with Genevieve Lakier, professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and one of the country’s leading theorists of free speech, about the climate for speech in the…
S1E5 S1 E5: The 1A A-Bomb
Social media platforms have evaded heavy regulation on their content moderation practices so far, but the jig may very well be up. Many U.S. states are considering enacting laws to rein platforms in.…
S1E4 S1 E4: Our Corporate Speech Overlords
Social media platforms make more decisions about free speech every minute than the Supreme Court has made in more than two hundred years. So the values and systems adopted by these Corporate Speech…
S1E3 S1 E3: Old Doctrine, New Tricks
Over time, the First Amendment has meant lots of different things to a lot of different people. In this episode, with University of Chicago law professor Genevieve Lakier by her side, host Evelyn…
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Views on First has published 23 episodes since January 2023, covering topics in News, News Commentary.
Views on First is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 32m.
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