Free Speech - A Global History from Socrates to Social Media

The first global history of free speech shows we need to understand the past to address the challenges of the future.

About the author

Jacob Mchangama is a lawyer, human rights advocate and former external lecturer of Human Rights at the University of Copenhagen. He is the founder and director of Justitia, a Copenhagen-based think tank focusing on human rights, freedom of speech, and the rule of law. His writings have appeared in a wide range of international outlets including The Economist, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico, The Wall Street Journal Europe, El Pais, France24, Deutsche Welle, and Al Jazeera. This book builds on his podcast Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech, which has reached an audience of over 220,000 unique listeners in more than 120 countries across the world.

Summary

The first global history of free speech shows we need to understand the past to address the challenges of the future.

Additional text

This outstanding book gets it in one: free speech, as that right and privilege has been fought for and exercised as a key component of our always fragile democracies, is currently experiencing the greatest threat imaginable. To learn exactly how and why, and what we can do to eliminate or minimise this threat, everyone needs to read this deeply researched and powerfully written, truly global history covering everything from the face-to-face world of the ancient Greeks to our own, very different world of anonymous digital media

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Mchangama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2022
• EAN: 9781529382198
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-8219-8
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 240 mm x 46 mm
• Weight: 780 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Political science & theory, Social and cultural history, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Ethical Issues: Censorship