It might well be that there were other previous cultures or polities that had in place a principle and culture of free speech, but that history has left us no record of them. Jacob Mchangama: I originate the beginnings of free speech as a concept and principle in the Athenian democracy some 2,500 years ago. You focus on the struggles, setbacks, false starts, and sacrifices connected with the uneven spread of this principle and associated practices around the globe. Would you be willing to briefly reconstruct the basic narrative arc of your learned and detailed monograph? Which key innovations in argument have provided support for this essential cause of free speech across the centuries and what were some of the crucial moments of progress in the history of free speech in terms of new legislations or new policies? Ferenc Laczó: Your new book Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media traces the history and gradual spread of free speech across the millennia.
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