Fund Drive Special – Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent

Historians frequently see the late 1900 and earliest century as a period of time that represents the fiercest battle between labor and capital. Today we examine this period to the times of Eugene V. Debs, the perennial socialist candidate who in 1920 ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America’s role in World War I. He garnered six million votes in that election.  Debs case illuminates our own struggle to define the boundaries of permissible dissent as we continue to balance the right of free speech with the demands of national security.
Guest: Ernest Freeberg is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of the book Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent.
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