Skip to content
Free Speech History
  • HOME
  • EPISODES
    • Episode 41 – Free Speech and Racial Justice: Friends or Foes?
    • Special Edition – Suzanne Nossel
    • Special Edition – Daphne Keller & Kate Klonick
    • Special Edition – Dunja Mijatović
    • Special Edition – Monika Bickert
    • 40 – The Age of Human Rights: Tragedy and Triumph
    • 39 – The Totalitarian Temptation – Part II – Der Untergang
    • 38 – The Totalitarian Temptation – Part I
    • 37 – Expert Opinion – The History of Mass Surveillance, with Andreas Marklund
    • 36 – Thomas Healy on how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed the history of free speech in America
    • 35 – White Man´s Burden: Empire, Liberalism and Censorship
    • View all
  • TIMELINE
  • ABOUT
  • MORE
    • Guest Appearances

Category: Episodes

Episode 35 – White Man´s Burden: Empire, Liberalism and Censorship

Posted December 2, 2019December 17, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

 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 […]

Episode 34 – The Age of Reaction: The fall and rise of free speech in 19th century Europe

Posted November 21, 2019November 21, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

 The 18th century ended with free speech in full retreat. With the French Revolution, the call for “Enlightenment Now!” was no longer seen as the harbinger of humanity’s inevitable […]

Special Edition – A conversation with Professor David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur

Posted October 28, 2019October 29, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

 In this special edition of Clear And Present Danger we leave the past and jump into the present for a discussion on how international human rights standards are relevant […]

Episode 33 – Counter-Revolution: Dutch Patriots, Tom Paine´s Rights of Man and the campaign against Seditious Writings

Posted October 18, 2019October 18, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

Faced with bloody terrorism democratic Europe has often reacted with tough measures. The UK Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act of 2019 criminalizes expressing an opinion that is “supportive” of a […]

Episode 32 – Policing opinion in the French Revolution with Charles Walton

Posted September 28, 2019September 28, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

On Aug. 26, 1789, France’s National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Article 11 of the Declaration proclaimed: The free communication of ideas […]

Episode 31 – The Old Regime

Posted September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

In Nov. 2018, French President Emanuel Macron declared war on “offensive and hateful content” on the internet. Subsequently, France adopted strict laws against both online hate speech and fake news, […]

Episode 30 – Northern Lights, The Scandinavian Press Freedom Breakthrough

Posted August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes, Landscapes

In the 1760s and 1770s, Sweden and Denmark-Norway shortly became the epicenter of press freedom protections in Enlightenment Europe. In 1766, the Swedish Diet passed the Press Freedom Act, making […]

Episode 29 – The Philosopher King – Enlightened Despotism, part 2, Prussia

Posted August 2, 2019August 14, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

In his famous essay “What is Enlightenment?” the Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant declared: “[E]nlightenment requires nothing but freedom … to make public use of one’s reason in all matters. Now […]

Episode 28 – Writing on Human Skin – Enlightened Despotism, part I, Russia

Posted July 10, 2019July 12, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

 The Enlightenment’s emphasis on science, progress, tolerance and rationality attracted not only philosophers — even absolute monarchs dreamt of “Enlightenment Now.” But how do you incorporate the enlightenment’s revelations […]

Episode 27 – How Enlightening

Posted June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

 After a brief detour into the present, we return to Ground Zero of the Enlightenment in 18th century Europe, with this recap of past episodes and a brief overview […]

Posts navigation

Previous 1 2 3 … 5 Next

Privacy

Get in touch

Lautrupsgade 13, 2. sal. 2100 KBH Ø, Denmark
+45 23 92 61 00
freespeechhistory@gmail.com
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Sydney by aThemes.