Mark Crispin Miller: Propaganda and Academic Freedom

0:00 – Intro and sponsors
0:53 – Mark Crispin Miller joins from NYU
2:08 – How Miller became a professor and media critic
6:01 – The Bush Dyslexicon and reading Bush's speech
7:47 – Fooled Again and the blackout of his 2004 election book
10:49 – Where the term "conspiracy theory" came from
12:43 – The CIA's 1967 memo on Warren Report critics
14:06 – Lance deHaven-Smith's Conspiracy Theory in America
18:53 – Conspiracy theory, domestic terrorism, and free speech
21:00 – Miller's election claims and proposed voting reforms
25:56 – Lou's belief and skepticism class at NYU
29:27 – Media unanimity, fact checks, and asking questions
31:42 – Is Lou's sketch comedy propaganda?
34:46 – How Miller teaches his propaganda course
37:18 – Propaganda and censorship as two sides of one coin
39:20 – YouTube, social media, and the private commons
42:14 – The class on masking studies that sparked a complaint
49:15 – A student's Twitter campaign and the chair's response
56:02 – The dean's email and the canceled propaganda course
58:26 – The change.org petition and a formal review
1:03:08 – Why Miller sued his colleagues for libel
1:06:21 – The censorship trifecta
1:09:02 – Mask politics after the CDC's new guidance
1:10:13 – Miller on hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and lab leak
1:15:15 – Miller's criticisms of COVID policy and vaccines
1:24:13 – The Post Office Act and an informed citizenry
1:26:11 – Wrap-up and the Chronicle of Higher Education piece