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On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, host Nico Perrino is joined by Stetson University Professor of Psychology Christopher J. Ferguson for a wide-ranging conversation about the psychology of censorship, the role of madness and eccentricity in shaping history, the effects of social media, the growing polarization and politicization of modern institutions, including academia, and more.

Ferguson is the author of the new book “How Madness Shaped History: An Eccentric Array of Maniacal Rulers, Raving Narcissists, and Psychotic Visionaries.” He also co-authored “Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong,” which was the subject of a past So to Speak episode.

Show notes:

*Transcript
https://www.thefire.org/so-to-speak-podcast-free-speech-psychology-and-madness/
*“Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” by Jared M. Diamond
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*“Repressive Tolerance” by Herbert Marcuse
https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html
*“Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness” by Cass Sunstein
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