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Is Free Speech Under Threat? - by Charlotte Lydia Riley & Intelligence Squared (Hardcover)

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  • One big question.
  • About the Author: Charlotte Lydia Riley is a historian of 20th-century Britain at the University of Southampton, specializing in questions about empire, politics, culture and identity.
  • 208 Pages
  • Social Science, Sociology

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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) 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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---Praise for DARE TO SPEAK: DEFENDING FREE SPEECH FOR ALL by Suzanne Nossel

This brave, wise, succinct book is a must-read for writers, speakers, teachers, journalists, and, well, anyone who talks--Margaret Atwood

An authoritative, essential book--Salman Rushdie

A much needed, cogent and compelling blueprint--Hillary Rodham Clinton

As a prominent defender of outspoken wordsmiths, Suzanne Nossel knows a thing or two about free speech, and she makes a powerful case that freedom of expression is not just compatible but necessary for the advancement of equality and human rights--Steven Pinker

---Praise for IMPERIAL ISLAND: A HISTORY OF EMPIRE IN MODERN BRITAIN by Charlotte Lydia Riley

A masterful, ingeniously written telling of Britain's real history ... Read this incisive and forensic book, and you won't look at Britain in the same way ever again--Owen Jones

A withering indictment of cruel Britannia ... a chilling history of institutional and public prejudice ... Riley gives injustices that ought to be better known their due--Guardian

A marvellous account of how the empire made modern Britain. With an eye that ranges from popular culture to the highbrow, from high politics to the household, Charlotte Riley's book is a thought-provoking delight that absolutely everyone should read--Stephen Bush

Skilfully, inexorably and powerfully, she builds up a picture that's been hiding in plain sight for far too long--Lucy Worsley



About the Author



Charlotte Lydia Riley is a historian of 20th-century Britain at the University of Southampton, specializing 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 is the CEO of PEN America, the leading human rights and free expression organization, and is a key voice on free expression issues in the United States and globally. During the first term of the Obama administration, Nossel served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organisations, where she led U.S. engagement in the United Nations on human rights and humanitarian issues. She is the author of Dare To Speak: Defending Free Speech For All and writes for publications that include the New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Guardian, TIME, Washington Post and more. She is a member of the Meta Oversight Board and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.73 Inches (H) x 5.76 Inches (W) x .57 Inches (D)
Weight: .66 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Sociology
Publisher: Bodley Head
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Charlotte Lydia Riley & Intelligence Squared
Language: English
Street Date: May 20, 2025
TCIN: 94593869
UPC: 9781847928221
Item Number (DPCI): 247-44-2546
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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