At the moment Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie discuss a recent editorial in The New York TimesA wave of new laws regulate school curriculums.
1:42 NYT Editorial Board Op-Ed: The State of Free Speech in America
24:47: School administrators are trying to prohibit certain types of content.
31:56 Weekly listener question: Which postwar president did you consider the greatest? P.S. P.S.
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