About this episode
On The Gist, Slate correspondent Justin Peters on the life and death of free-culture crusader Aaron Swartz and the history of copyright in the United States. Peters wrote The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet . In the Spiel, reflecting on recent shootings of black men by police and of police by a black man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices