84: How free speech shook the world, with Jacob Mchangama

The Brendan O'Neill Show

News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jacob Mchangama, author of “Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media”, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rising authoritarianism of left and right, the importance of free speech to equality and progress, and why censorship always fails to defeat bad ideas.

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