Episode 33 – Counter-Revolution: Dutch Patriots, Tom Paine´s Rights of Man and the campaign against Seditious Writings
Faced with bloody terrorism democratic Europe has often reacted with tough measures. The UK Counter-Terrorism…
Faisal Saeed Al Mutars presentation on ideas beyond borders work
Watch the full presentation from the founder of Ideas Beyond Borders Faisal Saeed Al Mutar.
Episode 32 – Policing opinion in the French Revolution with Charles Walton
On Aug. 26, 1789, France’s National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man…
The Economist: Blasphemy laws are quietly vanishing in liberal democracies
Jacob Mchangama, a Danish lawyer who has chronicled the history of free speech in the…
Episode 31 – The Old Regime
In Nov. 2018, French President Emanuel Macron declared war on “offensive and hateful content” on…
Episode 30 – Northern Lights, The Scandinavian Press Freedom Breakthrough
In the 1760s and 1770s, Sweden and Denmark-Norway shortly became the epicenter of press freedom…
Episode 29 – The Philosopher King – Enlightened Despotism, part 2, Prussia
In his famous essay “What is Enlightenment?” the Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant declared: “[E]nlightenment requires…
Episode 28 – Writing on Human Skin – Enlightened Despotism, part I, Russia
The Enlightenment’s emphasis on science, progress, tolerance and rationality attracted not only philosophers — even…
Episode 27 – How Enlightening
After a brief detour into the present, we return to Ground Zero of the Enlightenment…
Episode 26 – Oslo Freedom Forum Special with Megha Rajagopalan and Yuan Yang
June 4th, 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the bloody culmination of the Chinese government´s…