The 2016 Holberg Debate with Timothy Garton Ash: "Free Speech in an Age of Diversity and Conflict"
Holberg Prize Talks
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The Importance of Respecting the Believer
Linguistic barriers are incredibly resistant, including on Wikipedia. There's an amazing lack of overlap between English and German,. Let alone German and Chinese. So the very exercise of trying to translate into 12 other languages stripped down to essentials is incredibly demanding. One of the great sort of takeaways of this project is if you lay out the issues across the big relevant areas, you find that 70 to 80% of the concerns are common.
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