Learning about the Supreme Court sounds a lot like civics class, but More Perfect is more engaging than any class you slept through in high school. In each episode of this RadioLab spinoff, the creators delve into a specific Supreme Court case and try to get inside the justice’s heads to figure out how they made the decisions that heavily impacted our lives. This year’s Citizen’s United episode about a free speech case that opened the floodgates on campaign finance was particularly sobering. But more interesting still was the follow-up episode in which experts debated a pressing and related free speech issue: Should Twitter and Facebook be able to ban Neo Nazis who spew hate, or will that lead down a slippery slope?Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Podcast worth your attention
Time magazine has listed The Top 10 Podcasts of 2017 and number 4 is More Perfect -- which you may have first heard about from this blog. Here's Time's description:
Learning about the Supreme Court sounds a lot like civics class, but More Perfect is more engaging than any class you slept through in high school. In each episode of this RadioLab spinoff, the creators delve into a specific Supreme Court case and try to get inside the justice’s heads to figure out how they made the decisions that heavily impacted our lives. This year’s Citizen’s United episode about a free speech case that opened the floodgates on campaign finance was particularly sobering. But more interesting still was the follow-up episode in which experts debated a pressing and related free speech issue: Should Twitter and Facebook be able to ban Neo Nazis who spew hate, or will that lead down a slippery slope?
Learning about the Supreme Court sounds a lot like civics class, but More Perfect is more engaging than any class you slept through in high school. In each episode of this RadioLab spinoff, the creators delve into a specific Supreme Court case and try to get inside the justice’s heads to figure out how they made the decisions that heavily impacted our lives. This year’s Citizen’s United episode about a free speech case that opened the floodgates on campaign finance was particularly sobering. But more interesting still was the follow-up episode in which experts debated a pressing and related free speech issue: Should Twitter and Facebook be able to ban Neo Nazis who spew hate, or will that lead down a slippery slope?
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