‘The Great Dissent’ w/ Professor Thomas Healy [audio]: So to Speak podcast

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Was our modern First Amendment born out of a chance encounter on a train bound for Boston in 1918?

On this episode of So to Speak, host Nico Perrino speaks with Seton Hall Law Professor Thomas Healy. He argues that Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ unlikely run-in with Judge Learned Hand in the summer of 1918 set off a series of events that culminated in a new trajectory for the First Amendment in America.

Professor Healy is the author of “The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind — and Changed the History of Free Speech in America.” The book explores how one man who claimed to disdain all constitutional rights ended up breathing new meaning into our first one.