344 w/Jacob Mchangama "Speech, Sheep, and a Crying Room"

<p>Our favorite Danish intellectual returns! After a three-plus year absence, Jacob Mchangama is back on the Fifth, this time promoting his amazing new book, <em>Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, </em>which P.J. O'Rourke calls "best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made." We tend to agree. The lads make quick work of a bottle of sake and still manage to blather about...</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The state of free speech in Europe</li><li>Joe Rogan and the crisis of speech</li><li>Many of history's heroes of free speech were kind of shitty on free speech</li><li>It always comes back to Nazis</li><li>The Weimar fallacy</li><li>Hanged for speech. Really, really bad speech</li><li>The sheep theory</li><li>Jacob brings up Nazis again </li><li>Tell the moon about the crying room</li><li>The most powerful engine for social change</li><li>Free speech is a powerful engine *against* racism</li><li>Two islamists realize they were wrong about free speech</li></ul><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>