Summary: <p>Andrew Marantz, a contributing editor for <em>The New Yorker</em>, discusses his piece "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/02/how-social-media-trolls-turned-uc-berkeley-into-a-free-speech-circus" target="_blank">Fighting Words</a>," which (is titled online as "How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus") appears in the July 2 issue. Marantz reports from University of California, Berkeley, which was the home of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s, and has been at the center of a national conversation about free speech on campus in recent years. In the fall, Carol Christ, Berkeley’s new chancellor, announced that the 2017-18 academic year would be a “free speech year” and that a student group had invited the professional irritant Milo Yiannopoulos to speak on campus, even though violence erupted before Yiannopoulos’s appearance at Berkeley the previous academic year. The article probes the efficacy of the First Amendment, its pitfalls, and potential.</p> <p><em>This segment is guest hosted by DW Gibson. </em></p>
