9/4/2023 0 Comments What's up what's upLets sit down and then you can say whats up. informal Whats up I said to him.Nothing much, he answered. Thomas Healy’s book The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes CHanged His Mind - And Changed the History of Free Speech In America (the inspiration for this episode) plus his latest book Soul City: Race, Equality and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia. Definition of Whats up Whats up phrase If you say to someone Whats up or if you tell them whats up, you are asking them or telling them what is wrong or what is worrying them. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at /donate. Special thanks to Jenny Lawton, Soren Shade, Kelsey Padgett, Mahyad Tousi and Soroush Vosughi. This episode was reported by Latif Nasser and was produced by Sarah Qari. (Spoiler: the answer involves anarchists, a house of truth, and a cry for help from a dear friend.) Join us as we investigate why he changed his mind, how that made the country change its mind, and whether it’s now time to change our minds again. Why he changed his mind during those 8 months is one of the greatest mysteries in the history of the Supreme Court. Even weirder, you can trace it back to one seemingly ordinary 8-month period in Holmes’s life when he seems to have done a logical U-turn on what should be say-able. But our say-almost-anything approach to free speech is actually relatively recent, and you can trace it back to one guy: a Supreme Court justice named Oliver Wendell Holmes. Love it or hate it, the freedom to say obnoxious and subversive things is the quintessence of what makes America America.
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