This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama

By Jacob Mchangama

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This Week in Free Speech is your weekly deep dive into the most cutting-edge global developments affecting the most important of human rights: freedom of expression. Each week your host Jacob Mchangama invites a guest with particular relevance or expertise to discuss a hot topic with global relevance for free speech, whether online or offline. Jacob Mchangama is the executive director of the Future of Free Speech Project, research professor at Vanderbilt University author of the critically acclaimed book “FREE SPEECH: A History from Socrates to Social Media” and the writer and narrator of the podcast “Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech”.

Episode Date
Special Edition - Suzanne Nossel
Jul 31, 2020
Special Edition - Daphne Keller & Kate Klonick
May 14, 2020
Special Edition - Dunja Mijatović
May 04, 2020
Special Edition - Monika Bickert
Apr 17, 2020
Episode 40 - The Age of Human Rights: Tragedy and Triumph
Feb 04, 2020
Episode 39 - The Totalitarian Temptation – Part II - Der Untergang
Jan 27, 2020
Episode 38 - The Totalitarian Temptation – Part I
Jan 15, 2020
Episode 37 - Expert opinion: The History of Mass Surveillance, with Andreas Marklund
Dec 30, 2019
Episode 36 - Expert opinion: Thomas Healy on how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed the history of free speech in America
Dec 19, 2019
Episode 35 - White Man´s Burden: Empire, Liberalism and Censorship
Dec 02, 2019
Episode 34 – The Age of Reaction: The fall and rise of free speech in 19th century Europe
Nov 21, 2019
Special Edition - A conversation with Professor David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur
Oct 28, 2019
Episode 33 - Counter-Revolution: Dutch Patriots, Tom Paine´s Rights of Man and the campaign against Seditious Writings
Oct 18, 2019
Episode 32 - Policing opinion in the French Revolution with Charles Walton
Sep 28, 2019
Episode 31 - The Old Regime
Sep 12, 2019
Episode 30 - Northern Lights, The Scandinavian Press Freedom Breakthrough
Aug 23, 2019
Episode 29 - The Philosopher King - Enlightened Despotism, part 2, Prussia
Aug 02, 2019
Episode 28 - Writing on Human Skin - Enlightened Despotism, part I, Russia
Jul 12, 2019
Episode 27 - How Enlightening
Jun 21, 2019
Episode 26 – Oslo Freedom Forum Special with Megha Rajagopalan and Yuan Yang
Jun 04, 2019
Episode 25 – Oslo Freedom Forum Special with Larry Diamond
May 28, 2019
Episode 24 – Expert Opinion: Stephen Solomon part two - The Sedition Act
May 10, 2019
Episode 23 – Expert Opinion: Stephen Solomon part one - The First Amendment
Apr 17, 2019
Episode 22 - Fighting Words - Free Speech in 18th Century America, Part II
Mar 08, 2019
Episode 21 - The Bulwark of Liberty - Free Speech in 18th Century America, Part I
Feb 14, 2019
Episode 20 - The Seeds of Enlightenment
Jan 25, 2019
Episode 19 – Expert Opinion: Steven Nadler on Spinoza’s ‘book forged in hell” and the right to “think what you like and say what you think”
Jan 03, 2019
Episode 18 - Colonial Dissent: Blasphemy, Libel and Tolerance in 17th Century America
Dec 14, 2018
Episode 17 - Global Inquisition
Nov 17, 2018
Episode 16: Expert Opinion - Michael Shermer
Nov 02, 2018
Episode 15 - Paper-bullets and the forgotten martyrs of radical free speech
Oct 11, 2018
Episode 14 - ‘Universal Peace’: Religious tolerance in the Mughal empire
Sep 20, 2018
Episode 13: Expert Opinion - Jonathan Haidt
Sep 06, 2018
Episode 12: Expert Opinion - Teresa Bejan
Aug 23, 2018
Episode 11: The great disruption - Part II
Aug 09, 2018
Episode 10: The great disruption - Part I, the printing press and the viral Reformation
Jun 14, 2018
Episode 9: Expert Opinion - Christine Caldwell Ames
May 24, 2018
Episode 8: The hounds of God - medieval heretics and inquisitors
May 17, 2018
Episode 7: Expert Opinion - Peter Adamson
Apr 26, 2018
Episode 6: The not-so-Dark Ages, medieval intellectuals, and freethinkers
Apr 05, 2018
Episode 5: The Caliphate
Mar 22, 2018
Episode 4: Expert Opinion - Paul Cartledge
Mar 08, 2018
Episode 3: The Age of Persecution
Mar 01, 2018
Episode 2: Liberty or License - Free Speech in Ancient Rome
Feb 15, 2018
Episode 1: Who wishes to speak? - Free Speech in Ancient Athens
Feb 01, 2018
Episode 0: Why free speech?
Jan 24, 2018