Timothy Garton Ash on Free Speech and the Private Superpowers of Media | The New School

Drawing on his new book Free Speech: Ten Principles For a Connected World (Yale University Press), Timothy Garton Ash reflects on the new challenges to free speech that have arisen even in countries where people enjoy constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression. The free speech we need for democracy, he argues, requires more than just the negative liberty of freedom from prior constraint by the state.

Location: Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, University Center
Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm