Free Speech
How can we get beyond the binary for and against debate around free speech? Matthew Sweet and guests discuss.
Too often, the debate about free speech gets mired in a for-and-against debate. How to get beyond this to a more nuanced discussion? Matthew Sweet discusses with guests including:
Jeffrey Howard, philosopher and author of Setting Fire to Reason: The Ethics of Free Speech and Fara Dabhoiwala, historian and author of What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea.
Producer: Eliane Glaser
On radio
Broadcast
- Fri 20 Nov 202621:00BBC Radio 4
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