Tag: Free speech

Jacob Mchangama: Free Speech from Socrates to Social Media

The Human Progress Podcast | 4 March 2022 | 0h 55m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Jacob Mchangama about his book Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media. Makes the case that the free exchange of ideas is essential to progress.

Censorship: Waging War on Free Speech

History Extra | 18 August 2021 | 0h 37m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Eric Berkowitz about his book Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News. Discusses the inglorious history of censorship – from the first Chinese emperor to Henry VIII – and explains why he believes that attempts to silence others never work.

Greg Lukianoff on Free Speech

The Psychology Podcast | 24 September 2020 | 1h 28m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Greg Lukianoff eloquently arguing the case for free speech. Covers the need to know what others think, why you cannot ban something simply because it is offensive, protections against inciting violence against vulnerable people, depression and cognitive behavioural therapy, how anti-free speech administrations taught students habits of anxiety and depression by repressing free speech, reasons for the sudden spike in anti-free speech activism, and more.

Restriction of Speech Online is Solvable

Solvable | 20 November 2019 | 0h 31m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. Discusses his work fostering public understanding of free speech on the internet and who should make the rules about regulation.

Uncensored: What Free Speech Debates Teach Us About Empathy

The Next Big Idea | 19 November 2019 | 0h 46m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Zachary Wood discussing ideas from his memoir Uncensored, which argues that we can develop empathy and understanding by engaging with opposing viewpoints – including controversial speakers like anti-feminists, climate-change deniers, and self-proclaimed racists.

Jonathan Haidt – The Coddling of the American Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris | 9 September 2018 | 1h 36m | Listen Later  | iTunes
Interview with Jonathan Haidt about the ideas in The Coddling of the American Mind. Covers hostility to free speech, recent moral panics on campus, the role of intentions in ethical life, the economics of prestige in “call out” culture, bigotry, systemic racism and the paradox of progress.