Charlotte Lydia Riley, Suzanne Nossel, Intelligence Squared

Is Free Speech Under Threat? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One big question. Two great answers.

In Is Free Speech Under Threat? two leading thinkers tackle the issue at the very heart of the culture wars.

Suzanne Nossel (CEO of PEN America) puts the case that even though there is an important rebalancing of power taking place in society today, rightly giving minority voices the space and prominence they have long been owed, even so the uncompromising intolerance of a left-leaning minority crosses the threshold of an important principle on which free speech relies. In the process, they play into the hands of outright censors, further harming free speech.

Charlotte Lydia Riley (editor of THE FREE SPEECH WARS) argues that the right to free speech has always been enjoyed by the powerful and denied to the powerless. Accusations of cancel culture and defences of free speech are attempts to fuel a culture war and so inhibit an important progressive realignment in which the right to say hateful, offensive and harmful things is at last being called out for what it is.

The THINK AGAIN series presents short books that address the big, divisive questions of our times in a uniquely constructive way: two expert, contrasting and equally persuasive views in a single volume that can be read from either end.

Published in conjunction with Intelligence Squared, the world's leading curator of debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529935721
• Artikelnr.: 69144614

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Lydia Riley (Author)
Charlotte Lydia Riley is a historian of twentieth-century Britain at the University of Southampton, specialising in questions about empire, politics, culture and identity. She is editor of The Free Speech Wars and author of Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. Her writing has appeared in a wide range of publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times, Washington Post and History Today. She tweets @lottelydia.

Suzanne Nossel (Author)
Suzanne Nossel is the CEO of PEN America, the leading human rights and free expression organisation, and is a key voice on free expression issues in the United States and globally. During the Obama administration, Nossel served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organisations. She has also served as a senior leader in global human rights organizations and as a media executive. She is the author of Dare To Speak: Defending Free Speech For All and has been widely published in outlets including the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Washington Post and more. She is a Member of the Meta Oversight Board which applies human rights principles to shape high impact content moderation decisions on social media.