Youi had mat ridley on the podcast few weeks ago his book virel. They kind of stage a debate, stage of debateu an, they kind of give the debate of the lableke versus the zonomic a spread hypotheses. By the time i read the book carefully, and it's not clear, it's like 50 50, or maybe 51 forty. Aman could go either way. We just still don't know. And you can't trust the chinese for the information they're giving us. Anyway, that's the point of your book, ri yaku, thank you so much.
Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy, and it is subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.
In this episode, based on the book Free Speech, Michael Shermer and Jacob Mchangama discuss the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of the principle, how much we have gained from it, and how much we stand to lose without it. Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant.