Free speech requires the Socratic “recognition that you almost certainly don’t know everything,” says Greg Lukianoff. Lukianoff, the founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), diagnoses a humility deficiency in the new documentary Can We Take A Joke?

Last November, its indie film-fest premiere coincided with anti-speech protests at Yale and Mizzou. Now, you can catch it online and in hip urban movie theaters. It’s worth a click, or a trip downtown, for civil libertarians—or indeed, anyone who likes to laugh.

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