Archive - The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff

Celebrating two years of The Eternally Radical Idea on Substack!

Featuring a new — and very shareable — introduction to what ERI is all about.

Aug 13 •

Ep. 249: FIRE Reacts — Where does Harvard go from here? With Larry Summers

2025 has not been kind to Harvard.

Published on So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast • Aug 12

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FIRE sues Rubio, Angel & I get idiomatic, the global free speech recession continues, & more!

Bringing you the latest free speech news (8/10/25)

Aug 10 •

These free speech sayings are falling out of favor. What does that mean for our culture?

A world where “Words are violence” is more common than “Sticks and stones…” is a world oriented against free speech principles. But we can turn that…

Aug 7 •

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My ‘Coddling’ article turns 10, Trump gets the South Park treatment, RIP Tom Lehrer, & more!

Bringing you the latest free speech news (8/3/25)

Aug 3 •

July 2025

About THAT South Park episode

The First Amendment’s funniest defenders declare war on the extortion-industrial complex

Jul 29 •

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FIRE files suit in PA, White House unveils AI EOs, SCOTUS rules on TikTok, & more!

Bringing you the latest free speech news (7/27/25)

Jul 27 •

The war on ‘woke AI’ just became federal policy

Ideological bias in Trump’s new executive order bans DEI-linked ideology from government-funded models. But trading one orthodoxy for another still…

Jul 24 •

Burning down the library: How AI laws are reviving the worst ideas of campus censorship

AND my new book, 'The War On Words,' with the great Nadine Strossen is officially out today!

Jul 22 •

Barbara Oakley launches MOOC feat. yours truly, me on the 'Prof G Pod' w/ Scott Galloway, the state of free speech (somehow) worsens in the…

Bringing you the latest free speech news (7/20/25)

Jul 20 •

Villareal to get her day in (the Supreme) Court… again, Trump threatens CNN w/ lawsuit over coverage of ICE-tracking app, me on the Glenn…

Bringing you the latest free speech news (7/13/25)

Jul 13 •

‘Who decides?’: The question that shatters the illusion of censorship as safety

Polling shows many Americans want AI and speech regulation…until they try to choose the regulator

Jul 10 •

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