![]() “ expansive, atypical history… When free speech advances, as shows, rulers and other elites often grow alarmed and conclude that it has gone “too far.” Long before governments and thinkers panicked about the spread of noxious ideas via social media, they panicked over the spread of noxious ideas via the printing press… Free Speech is addressed especially to the well-meaning among would-be censors. Meticulously researched and deeply humane, Free Speech demonstrates how much we have gained from this principle-and how much we stand to lose without it. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant, and he explores how even its champions can be led down this path when the rise of new and contrarian voices challenge power and privilege of all stripes. Wells and modern-day digital activists-Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Through captivating stories of free speech’s many defenders-from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Rāzī, to the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. ![]() In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. ![]() Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. ![]() ![]() Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today ![]()
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