EPISODE · Oct 10, 2024 · 3H 46M
Suzanne Nossel, Charlotte Lydia Riley's Is Free Speech Under Threat?
from Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics · host Suzanne Nossel, Charlotte Lydia Riley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Is Free Speech Under Threat? Author: Suzanne Nossel, Charlotte Lydia Riley Narrator: Charlotte Lydia Riley, Suzanne Nossel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: Is free speech under threat? Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading free expression organisation, 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. Published in conjunction with Intelligence Squared, the world’s leading curator of debate, this book is part of the THINK AGAIN series: short books that present two expert, contrasting but equally persuasive views in a single volume that can be read from either end. © Suzanne Nossel and Charlotte Lydia Riley 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Is Free Speech Under Threat? Author: Suzanne Nossel, Charlotte Lydia Riley Narrator: Charlotte Lydia Riley, Suzanne Nossel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: Is free speech under threat? Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading free expression organisation, 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. Published in conjunction with Intelligence Squared, the world’s leading curator of debate, this book is part of the THINK AGAIN series: short books that present two expert, contrasting but equally persuasive views in a single volume that can be read from either end. © Suzanne Nossel and Charlotte Lydia Riley 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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