9. Freeing Up Speech

Dumb Defenses · Jul 31, 2026 · 57m · transcript

This week, Frankie and Judah are looking at the state of free speech protections in the 1950's, and people getting in trouble for exercising it.

Jacobellis v. Ohio: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep378/usrep378184/usrep378184.pdf

PBS videos on McCarthy: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mccarthy-anatomy-investigation/