Clear and Present Danger - A history of free speech Podcast
1) Episode 41 - Free Speech and Racial Justice: Friends or Foes?
In May 2020, protests erupted all over the U.S. after a video emerged of a white police officer killing a black man named George Floyd. Millions took to the streets in support of racial justice under ...Show More
2) Special Edition - Suzanne Nossel
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...Show More
3) Special Edition - Daphne Keller & Kate Klonick
“Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal,” declared the headline of a recent Atlantic article by law professors Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods. The piece argues that the U.S. must learn f...Show More
4) Special Edition - Dunja Mijatović
Since the coronavirus became a pandemic, governments around the world have adopted a wide range of measures affecting basic human rights. This includes many of the 47 member states of the Council of E...Show More
5) Special Edition - Monika Bickert
The coronavirus has disrupted life as we know it. Billions of people across the world are caught in varying degrees of lockdowns with severe restrictions on their freedom of movement. But while our ph...Show More
6) Episode 40 - The Age of Human Rights: Tragedy and Triumph
In 2014, Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam by promoting secular values on his blog Free Saudi Liberals. Raif Badawi’s fate wou...Show More
7) Episode 39 - The Totalitarian Temptation – Part II - Der Untergang
In November 2019 German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a passionate speech to the German Bundestag. Merkel said “We have freedom of expression in this country…. But freedom of expression has its limits...Show More
8) Episode 38 - The Totalitarian Temptation – Part I
In George Orwell’s 1946 work, “The Prevention of Literature,” he wrote: [O]rganised lying … is … integral to totalitarianism, [and] would … continue even if concentration camps and secret police force...Show More
9) Episode 37 - Expert opinion: The History of Mass Surveillance, with Andreas Marklund
In 2013 the NSA contractor Edward Snowden sent shockwaves through the American government when he leaked information exposing a number of vast mass surveillance programs providing the US Government an...Show More
Episode 37 - Expert opinion: The History of Mass Surveillance, with Andreas Marklund
50:25 | Dec 30th, 2019
10) Episode 36 - Expert opinion: Thomas Healy on how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed the history of free speech in America
On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, the newly elected president, gave his first inaugural address. Jefferson eloquently dismissed the logic behind the Sedition Act of 1798, which had sent Republican c...Show More