Episode 92: MAPs Of Meaning

Plus: People got super mad at a New York Times column about campus free speech This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe 

The hosts discuss all the brains that have been melted by Russia’s invastion of Ukraine, the role of race in determining how local populations respond to refugees, and the all-too-common collision of trans rights and lithium mining. If you’d like to discuss this issue with other ...  عرض المزيد

In this episode I address the growing number of assaults on free speech on college campuses and the real reasons behind this. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-campus-mob-came-for-meand-you-professor-could-be-next-1496187482   I also address a critical problem with the Left's Trum ...  عرض المزيد

Columbia University has become the epicenter of a growing showdown between student protesters, college administrators and Congress over the war in Gaza and the limits of free speech.

Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The Times, walks us thr ...

At a precarious moment for the free press—as journalists face rhetoric about “fake news,” hostility toward reporters at political rallies, and efforts by powerful interests to suppress and manipulate the news—this episode looks at a group of people on the frontlines of the fight ...  عرض المزيد

Warning: this episode contains strong language.

Universities across the country strained under pressure to take a public position on the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.

Nicholas Confessore, a political and investigative reporter for The Times, explains the ...