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A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human.
19 authors created a book list connected to freedom of speech, and here are their favorite freedom of speech books.
The best books on free speech, as recommended by author and academic Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European History at the University of Oxford.
Drawing on a lifetime of writing about dictatorships and dissidents, Timothy Garton Ash argues that in this connected world that he calls cosmopolis, the way to combine freedom and diversity is to have more but also better free speech. Across all cultural divides we must strive to agree on how we disagree.
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. Wells and modern-day digital activists—Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the ...
Read this insightful book to understand the peril of today’s broad-based assault on free speech. —Michael J. Glennon, Professor of Constitutional and International Law, Tufts University, author of Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom: The Dangerous Allure of Censorship in the Digital Era.
1 On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. 2 On Tolerance by Frank Furedi. 3 The Human Stain by Philip Roth. 4 The Crucible by Arthur Miller. 5 Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. W as there a particular event that made you so passionate about freedom of speech? I was shocked at university to discover the “no platform policy”.
The best books on Freedom of Speech, recommended by Claire Fox. Modern society has interpreted John Stuart Mill’s concept of tolerance to mean that we should avoid giving offence. The director of the Institute of Ideas tells us about books that show how far we’ve departed from what was meant.
Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; envisioned as an ideal; and mediated by various linguistic, ... the book broadly interrogates the classic vision of a singular “Western liberal tradition” of freedom of speech, exploring its ...
This book discusses freedom of speech, which is central to the liberal democratic tradition. Freedom of speech touches on every aspect of our social and political system and receives explicit and implicit protection in every modern democratic constitution.