47 Episodes

  1. Episode 26 – Oslo Freedom Forum Special with Megha Rajagopalan and Yuan Yang

    Published: 6/4/2019
  2. Episode 25 – Oslo Freedom Forum Special with Larry Diamond

    Published: 5/28/2019
  3. Episode 24 – Expert Opinion: Stephen Solomon part two - The Sedition Act

    Published: 5/10/2019
  4. Episode 23 – Expert Opinion: Stephen Solomon part one - The First Amendment

    Published: 4/17/2019
  5. Episode 22 - Fighting Words - Free Speech in 18th Century America, Part II

    Published: 3/8/2019
  6. Episode 21 - The Bulwark of Liberty - Free Speech in 18th Century America, Part I

    Published: 2/14/2019
  7. Episode 20 - The Seeds of Enlightenment

    Published: 1/25/2019
  8. Episode 19 – Expert Opinion: Steven Nadler on Spinoza’s ‘book forged in hell” and the right to “think what you like and say what you think”

    Published: 1/3/2019
  9. Episode 18 - Colonial Dissent: Blasphemy, Libel and Tolerance in 17th Century America

    Published: 12/14/2018
  10. Episode 17 - Global Inquisition

    Published: 11/17/2018
  11. Episode 16: Expert Opinion - Michael Shermer

    Published: 11/2/2018
  12. Episode 15 - Paper-bullets and the forgotten martyrs of radical free speech

    Published: 10/11/2018
  13. Episode 14 - ‘Universal Peace’: Religious tolerance in the Mughal empire

    Published: 9/20/2018
  14. Episode 13: Expert Opinion - Jonathan Haidt

    Published: 9/6/2018
  15. Episode 12: Expert Opinion - Teresa Bejan

    Published: 8/23/2018
  16. Episode 11: The great disruption - Part II

    Published: 8/9/2018
  17. Episode 10: The great disruption - Part I, the printing press and the viral Reformation

    Published: 6/14/2018
  18. Episode 9: Expert Opinion - Christine Caldwell Ames

    Published: 5/24/2018
  19. Episode 8: The hounds of God - medieval heretics and inquisitors

    Published: 5/17/2018
  20. Episode 7: Expert Opinion - Peter Adamson

    Published: 4/26/2018

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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 the podcast “Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech”.