Past Present Future

The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Free Speech


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Today’s revolutionary idea is one with a long history, not all of it revolutionary: David talks to the historian Fara Dabhoiwala about the idea of free speech. When did free speech first get articulated as a fundamental right? How has that right been used and abused, from the eighteenth century to the present? And what changed in the history of the idea of free speech with the publication of J. S. Mill’s On Liberty in 1859?

Fara Dabhoiwala’s What Is Free Speech? is available now https://bit.ly/4jgcvDt

Next time: Marx and the Paris Commune w/Bruno Leipold

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