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The Free Speech Lecture
[Originally recorded and posted on YT in January 2021] Full-length presentation defending the bedrock principle of freedom of speech in any liberal governing order.
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0:00 - Intro
3:31 - The Free Speech Movement at UC-Berkeley
4:36 - Definition of Free Speech
7:34 - Speech and Democracy in Athens and Rome
10:18 - The Gutenberg Printing Press
13:33 - John Milton
18:20 - The Enlightenment
22:05 - The American and French Revolutions
24:50 - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
26:24 - Alexander Meiklejohn and Thomas I. Emerson
28:18 - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
37:58 - George Orwell, Animal Farm
40:20 - Seditious Speech
48:04 - Bigoted Speech
1:11:06 - The Need for Open Debate
1:16:28 - Censorship of Speech and Internet Freedoms in China
1:17:25 - Conclusion
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Dr. Jonathan Barth received his PhD in history from George Mason University in 2014. He specializes in the history of money and banking in the early modern period, with corollary interests in early modern politics, empire, culture, and ideas. Barth is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and Katzin Family Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University.
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