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Jacob Mchangama
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
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...
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Ratings & Reviews
4.7 stars from 121 ratings
Brilliant! A+++++
Finally, everything I could ever want in a podcast! This is intelligent, insightful (and often witty!) research that is conveyed in a compelling manner. Add to that the editing, “sound bytes”, and even the music, and it’s a just hands-down brilliant show. Love love love!!!!!
Surfergirl798372 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/11/23
Excellent
Unbelievably good. Filled with fascinating history and insights.
nicmart via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 09/14/19
I learn a lot with every episode
Freedom of speech is a fairly new concept and still controversial, even in the US. Clear and Present Danger teaches the history of tyrants who would tell us what to think and say. Highly relevant today.
Phil O. Soph via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 09/14/19
Recent Episodes
This episode will focus on what role the dynamic between censorship and free speech has played in maintaining and challenging racist and oppressive societies. The episode will use American slavery and segregation, British colonialism, and South African apartheid as case studies.  
Published 08/21/20
In this Special Edition, we will zoom in on current challenges to free speech – specifically in the US. With me to discuss this timely subject, I have  CEO of PEN America, Suzanne Nossel, who has just published her new book Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. The conversation evolves...
Published 07/31/20
“Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal” read a recent Atlantic article, that stated that “governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.”  But is this conclusion the only one available from the fallout of...
Published 05/14/20
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