6/29/2023 0 Comments Free speech by jacob mchangama![]() ![]() He admits that there are legitimate concerns about misinformation. He credits the medieval period, despite its penchant for censorship, with developing a culture of curiosity, fertile ground in which the first universities were planted. While Mchangama is clearly a partisan of free speech and the Enlightenment, he is fair and thoughtful as he details important events and movements through the last twenty-five centuries. I dare say it would make good beach reading for the dog days of summer. ![]() Yet it is strikingly scholarly and highly detailed, but not overly so. Jacob Mchangamas excellent new book, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, is breathtaking in its scope, covering twenty-five hundred years in a breezy, easy to follow style. The history of free speech is a history with many villains, few heroes, and more than a few fools. Radical Enlightenment figures like Voltaire, Diderot, and d∪lembert were not exempt from this trend. Once the tables had turned, the once censored became the censor. There have been many free speech champions, but few could withstand the temptation of censorship when it came to ones own reputation or pet causes. ![]() Scott AtlasĮveryone knows that the history of free speech is replete with examples of free speech for me, but not for thee. The excuse that Im for free speech, but goes too far is one of the oldest in the book. ![]() Single Issues of The Independent Review.Podcast: Independent Outlook / Conversations.International Economics and Development. ![]()
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