J.D. Vance chastised Europeans on free speech. He wasn’t wrong

Rethinking Free Speech – North American Dilemmas /w Peter Ives

Peter Ives is professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Rethinking Free Speech (Fernwood, 2024). We need to rethink free speech to better address diverse goals from knowledge production to democratic participation and individual expression. Clashes over free speech rights and wrongs haunt public debates about the state of democracy, freedom and the future. While freedom of speech is recognized as foundatio…

J.D. Vance chastised Europeans on free speech. He wasn’t wrong

Germany has taken the homeopathic approach to free speech, hoping that a minuscule amount, heavily diluted, will cure what ails the nation.