Is the First Amendment Flourishing or Floundering in the 21st Century?

Summary: A few weeks ago in Los Angeles, Reason celebrated its 50th anniversary. To mark that milestone, we hosted a series of discussions taking the measure of how far the world has come since 1968 in relation to a bunch of topics that we've long been interested in. We're happy to share with you a panel titled "The First Amendment in the 21st Century." The participants included: Nadine Strossen, a professor at New York University Law School, the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the author most recently of Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship; Stephanie Slade, the managing editor of Reason magazine, who writes frequently about religious liberty, and; Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA's law school, a frequently citied First Amendment scholar, and the creator of the popular law blog, The Volokh Conspiracy.