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Never Close the InquiryThe Indispensability of Free Speech with FIRE’s Nico PerrinoEpisode 19 - The Indispensability of Free Speech with FIRE’s Nico PerrinoNico Perrino, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, is a busy man. For many of us who came of political age in the 2010s, FIRE first entered the scene as a stalwart opponent of campus speech codes and defender of students subjected to discipline on account of protected speech. With Democrats in the White House, free speech was often viewed as a Republican issue, and FIRE an activist organization dedicated to this conservative cause. But that was never...2025-05-011h 02