No. 72 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Former ACLU president, New York Law School
Nadine Strossen is a legal scholar who led the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008, the first woman to do so.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Nadine Strossen's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Debates the limits of free speech in formal settings, from Intelligence Squared to Open to Debate.
Strossen is a professor at New York Law School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
She is the author of HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship.
On the record
2025
June 2025
Formal debate
Against Brandi Kruse · Open to Debate
Strossen argued about the state of free expression with commentator Brandi Kruse, moderated by Nick Gillespie.
2019
September 2019
Formal debate
Against Thane Rosenbaum · Intelligence Squared U.S.
Strossen argued against hate speech laws opposite the novelist and legal scholar Thane Rosenbaum.
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