The Way the World Works: A Tuttle Twins Podcast for Families · Connor Boyack
Is It Illegal to Burn The American Flag?
·15 min·1 clip
Why is burning the American flag, a radical act, actually protected under the First Amendment?
As heard by us
A direct civics primer that treats free speech as worth defending even when it is unpopular.
This episode presents the First Amendment through the charged question of whether the American flag can be burned. It starts with a recent executive order about desecrating the flag, then moves into why a flag can stand for more than cloth and why that symbolism provokes such a…
Why you'd press play
A First Amendment conversation about the right to burn the American flag.
Listen to the show on