Free speech is under assault from all political sides in the West. In the US, the Trump administration is arresting and revoking the visas of foreign students and campus activists, seemingly for their views on Gaza. In Europe, hate-speech laws are enforced with ever increasing vigour by woke technocrats. Even blasphemy laws are making a comeback. The scope of what can be thought and said is narrowing, all across the supposedly free world.
Jacob Mchangama – executive director of The Future of Free Speech and author of Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social Media – joined Brendan O’Neill on his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show, to discuss the global free-speech recession and why even non-citizens should have the right to speak freely. You can listen to the whole conversation here.
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Jacob Mchangama is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech. He is also a research professor at Vanderbilt University and a Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).