What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea - Fara Dabhoiwala

nA brilliant history of a weaponized mantra. --The Guardian n nA leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, with enormous consequences for our society today. n nEvery premodern society, from Sumeria to China to seventeenth-century Europe, knew that bad words could destroy lives, undermine social order, and create political unrest. Given the obvious dangers of outspokenness, regulating speech and print was universally accepted as a necessary and proper activity of government. Only in the early 1700s did…

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