Robert Post
American legal scholar and former dean of Yale Law SchoolWikipedia
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Sep 30, 2026
Brian SoucekGUEST
Their first book was, I think, a little, you know, is of its time as 10 years ago is a little more raw, raw campus speech and reminding people the values of the First Amendment, et cetera, is the kind of book that I think a lot of first year campus wide book read programs assigned.
Brian SoucekGUEST
and what Robert Post has referred to as a little bit more of a brass band conception of the First Amendment compared to this book, which really is grappling with some of the challenges of now and is a bit more specific in how to navigate some of the really hardest questions around faculty extramural speech and lots, many, many other things.
Brian SoucekGUEST
And they Again, I don't agree with them on everything.
Brian SoucekGUEST
They wouldn't allow departmental speech, for example, where I think one of the virtues of my book is the amount of time it devotes to that kind of speech, speech by schools, departments, institutes, which I think is in some ways more valuable than university-wide speech.
Brian SoucekGUEST
So we have some disagreements, but they are always somebody I consult.
Brian SoucekGUEST
And out of the book land, I should just give a shout out.
Brian SoucekGUEST
I am so deeply informed by in terms of my conception of academic freedom and campus speech issues by Robert Post at Yale.
Brian SoucekGUEST
And he continues to write articles on current issues, current threats to academic freedom that I think are just unmissable.
Robert PostGUEST
So democracy is a form of government in which a whole bunch of people who disagree with each other a whole lot and often don't like each other at all have to live together.
Simone LeeperHOST
This is Robert Post.
Simone LeeperHOST
He's a law professor at Yale Law School who years ago clerked for Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr.
Simone LeeperHOST
Professor Post's philosophy on political dissent and democracy is that they are, in a word, inextricable.
Robert PostGUEST
So, you know, I have to live with somebody from a different political party than me.
Robert PostGUEST
How do I live with them when I disagree with virtually all their policy prescription, with their values, etc.? Well, I create a mechanism by which these differences can be reconciled and perhaps compromised.
Simone LeeperHOST
In politically divided times, it's easy to forget that the American system runs on trade-offs.
Simone LeeperHOST
Certainly the authors of our Constitution didn't invent the concept of political compromise.
Eugene VolokhGUEST
thing about Larissa.
Eugene VolokhGUEST
There are many important things about Larissa, but for our purposes, she is the co-reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of Tort's Third, Defamation and Privacy, which she's currently working on together with Robert Post.
Eugene VolokhGUEST
And so she is the one of the leading academics in the country dealing with libel law, not just the way we academics usually deal with it by writing articles, but she's actually co-drafting this restatement, which has, of course, as lawyer listeners know, the restatements have been tremendously influential and continue to be tremendously influential.
Eugene VolokhGUEST
I'm not sure the restatement will have anything to say on AI as such, but she is certainly the expert on this subject.
Eugene VolokhGUEST
thing about Larissa.
Eugene VolokhGUEST
There are many important things about Larissa, but for our purposes, she is the co-reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of Tort's Third, Defamation and Privacy, which she's currently working on together with Robert Post.
Eugene VolokhGUEST
And so she is the one of the leading academics in the country dealing with libel law, not just the way we academics usually deal with it by writing articles, but she's actually co-drafting this restatement, which has, of course, as lawyer listeners know, the restatements have been tremendously influential and continue to be tremendously influential.
Eugene VolokhGUEST
I'm not sure the restatement will have anything to say on AI as such, but she is certainly the expert on this subject.
Jason StanleyGUEST
Now, there are some social psychologists who are attuned to that sort of thing.
Jason StanleyGUEST
Jennifer Richardson is an example, my former colleague, who, who's attuned to great replacement theory as a propaganda trope.
Jason StanleyGUEST
Ibram Kendi just published an excellent book, Chain of Ideas, on great replacement theory.
Jason StanleyGUEST
You know, but you need that in the study of propaganda.
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Jason StanleyGUEST
But, you know, Adam Tooze, uh, described the move to Canada as, like, the worst possible decision politically and ethically.
Jason StanleyGUEST
You know, uh, my...
Jason StanleyGUEST
I'm told that my former colleague, who I admire greatly, Greg Grandin, flames at me on social media, though I don't read social media, so I have no cl- idea if that's true.
Jason StanleyGUEST
Uh, so, uh, you know, so I know it was, it was...
speaker_2HOST
And the fifth.
speaker_3HOST
The ethical modality, which some scholars like Robert Post prefer to call responsive.
speaker_3HOST
This isn't about personal ethics.
speaker_3HOST
It's about deriving rules from the deep fundamental moral commitments of the American ethos that the Constitution was designed to protect.