From America’s founding fathers through John Stuart Mill to at this time’s social media giants, humanity has lengthy wrestled with the concept of free speech. What does it imply? Can it actually apply to everybody? And is an excessive amount of of it harmful? Right here, in dialog with Spencer Mizen, historian and writer Fara Dabhoiwala discusses an idea that has divided the world’s nice thinkers for 300 years.
Fara Dabhoiwala is the writer of What Is Free Speech?: The Historical past of a Harmful Concept (Allen Lane, 2025).