Cato Unbound:”Some Questions for Jacob Mchangama”
Is free speech in danger? Jeremy Waldron sounds a skeptical note, and he offers a…
Clear and Present Danger – episode 10: The great disruption: Part I, the printing press and the viral Reformation
The disruptive effects of the internet and social media on the spread of information are…
Cato Unbound:”How Censorship Crosses Borders”
Jacob Mchangama describes what he terms a “cross-fertilization of censorship,” in which regimes both free…
The Fiftf Column:”A conversation w/ Jacob Mchangama, Host of ‘Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech” podcast”
A conversation w/ Jacob Mchangama, Host of ‘Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free…
Reason Magazine:”How the Right Abandoned Free Speech in Europe”
The center-right Danish government, whose members defended the Mohammed cartoons, has passed more laws restricting…
FIRE Student Network Summer Conference
Time and place: The FSN Summer Conference will take place at the National Constitution Center…
Clear and Present Danger – episode 9: Expert opinion, Christine Caldwell Ames
Our last stop in the Middle Ages is an interview with professor Christine Caldwell Ames,…
Index on Censorship:”Censorship gone viral: The cross-fertilisation of repression”
For around six decades after WWII ideas, laws and institutions supporting free expression spread across…
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…
Clear and Present Danger – Episode 7: Expert Opinion – Peter Adamson
In our second expert opinion episode, Jacob Mchangama talks with Peter Adamson, who is…