Clear and Present Danger – Special Edition – A conversation with Professor David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression
In this special edition of Clear And Present Danger we leave the past and jump…
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…