The October 16 EconTalk episode with Bloomberg writer Megan McArdle is excellent on both sides. Some highlights, along with my comments, follow.

Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses the state of free speech on college campuses as well as whether students and faculty understand what the First Amendment means.

On Monday, the conservative educational nonprofit Prager University filed a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company, Google, for "intentional" censorship of conservative speakers. YouTube made more than fifteen percent of the organization's videos impossible to access in its "restrictive mode" -- meant to protect younger and more sensitive viewers -- and only slowly provided contradictory answers for why they were restricted.