Is free speech under threat?
Nossel, Suzanne, 1969-2025
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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, argues that alongside the necessary and long-overdue elevation of minority voices in recent years, there has also arisen an uncompromising intolerance - most notably on university campuses and online - that wrongly equates a wide range of offensive speech with violence and seeks to shut it down. This has led to an escalating free speech arms race, from which everyone loses. Charlotte Lydia Riley, historian of empire and editor of The Free Speech Wars, argues that accusations of cancel culture and defences of free speech are too often disingenuous attempts to fuel a culture war and so inhibit an important realignment in which hateful speech is at last being called out for what it is and the right to free expression is being extended to more people than ever before.
Main title:
Is free speech under threat? / Suzanne Nossel, Charlotte Lydia Riley.
Author:
Nossel, Suzanne, 1969-, authorRiley, Charlotte Lydia, authorIntelligencep2s (Great Britain), associated with work
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2025.
Collation:
192 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.Tête-bêche format.Published in conjunction with Intelligence Squared.
ISBN:
9781529935714 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
323.443323.443 NOS
Language:
English
BRN:
8922285