The democracy of Ancient Athens was the birthplace of equal and uninhibited speech. Or Isegoria and parrhesia to the Athenians. Jacob Mchangama guides you through how oratory was central to the idea and practice of Athenian democracy. What Athenian style free speech entailed for ordinary citizens, comedians, philosophers, and orators. How oligarchic coup d’etats twice drowned Athenian free speech in blood and repression. The extreme methods used by Demosthenes to become the greatest orator of antiquity. And of course: the trial of Socrates: Was he a martyr for free speech or an impious and seditious enemy of democracy?
Who wishes to speak? @CAPD_freespeech
23 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
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Age of Enlightenment reached #Aberystwyth, #Wales in 2009
23 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
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David Seymour on the Freedom to Speak Bill
16 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
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5 Reasons Why We Need Hate Speech | We The Internet TV
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, property rights Tags: free speech
The dangers of wokeness
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Peter Singer on free speech and the denial of the Holocaust that murdered three of his grandparents
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: free speech, The Holocaust

Why feed conspiracy theorists
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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.@BillMaher on Islamophobia
02 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Brilliant @AlanDersh talk on 1801 Thomas Jefferson lost letter on free speech he picked up by chance at his favourite bookstore @bryce_edwards
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech







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