‘This is the hill to die on for universities’: Free speech can survive Trump, but not without a fight

The Real News Podcast · Nov 13, 2025 · 48m

Historian David Hollinger connects the history of the 1964 free speech movement in Berkeley, California, to the protest movements and repressive crackdowns on free speech gripping universities today. In this episode of the Marc Steiner Show, co-hosted by Marc Steiner and Michael Fox, Hollinger draws on his firsthand experience and decades of research to explain the lessons we can learn from 1960s civil rights activists and antiwar organizers about how to defend free speech and academic freedom from extinction today.

Guest:

David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History…