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So to Speak podcast: “The Great Dissent” with Professor Thomas Healy

Was our modern First Amendment born out of a chance encounter on a train bound for Boston in 1918?
On this episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we speak with Seton Hall Law Professor . He argues that Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ unlikely run-in with Judge Learned Hand in the summer of 1918 set off a series of events that culminated in a new trajectory for the First Amendment in America.
Professor Healy is the author of “.” The book explores how one man who claimed to disdain all constitutional rights ended up breathing new meaning into our first one.
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