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 […]
Author: Soren Staghoj
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Episode 37 – Expert Opinion – The History of Mass Surveillance, with Andreas Marklund
In 2013, NSA contractor Edward Snowden sent shockwaves through the American government when he leaked information exposing a number of vast mass surveillance programs providing the U.S. Government and […]
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 […]
Episode 35 – White Man´s Burden: Empire, Liberalism and Censorship
During the mass protests that have rocked Hong Kong since June 2019, pro-democracy protesters have waved Union Jack flags and been singing God Save the Queen –– a clear […]