Episode 19: Money and "Corporate Free Speech"

Summary: Jake sits down with Professor Jim Sleeper, lecturer in Political Science at Yale University, to discuss the harms of corporate speech, the shortcomings of civil libertarians in protecting the “marketplace of ideas,” Citizens United, capitalism’s propensity to destroy civic culture, and other topics. Read Professor Sleeper’s writing on the subject here (https://www.salon.com/2018/08/03/free-speech-on-a-slippery-slope-why-are-civil-liberties-advocates-joining-forces-with-the-right/) and here (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/speech-defects-sleeper).