Clear and Present Danger – Episode 8: The hounds of God – medieval heretics and inquisitors
From the High Middle Ages, Europe developed into a “persecuting society,” obsessed with stamping out…
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Clear and Present Danger – Episode 7: Expert Opinion – Peter Adamson
In our second expert opinion episode, Jacob Mchangama talks with Peter Adamson, who is a…
Clear and Present Danger – Episode 6: The not-so-Dark Ages, medieval intellectuals, and freethinkers
In episode 6, we get medieval! Find out why the Middle Ages were as much…
Clear and Present Danger – Episode 5:”The Caliphate”
Why did the medieval Abbasid Caliphs have almost all ancient Greek works of philosophy and…
Clear and Present Danger – Episode 4: Expert Opinion – Paul Cartledge
In our first expert opinion segment, Jacob Mchangama talks to Emeritus Professor of Greek…
Clear and Present Danger – Episode 3:”The Age of Persecution”
Why did the polytheist Ancient Romans persecute the followers of the new Jewish sect of…
Clear and Present Danger – Episode 2:”Liberty or License”
Rome was the most powerful empire in antiquity. But were the Romans free to speak…
Clear and Present Danger – Episode 1:”Who wishes to speak?”
The democracy of ancient Athens was the birthplace of equal and uninhibited speech. Or Isegoria and parrhesia to the…
New podcast series: Clear and Present Danger – A history of free speech
Throughout global history, freedom of speech has played a defining role in allowing human beings…