Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World …

Admirably clear, . . . wise, up-to-the-minute and wide-ranging. . . . Free Speech encourages us to take a breath, look hard at the facts, and see how well-tried liberal principles can be applied and defended in daunting new circumstances.Edmund Fawcett, New York Times Book Review

A major piece of cultural analysis, sane, witty and urgently important.Timothy Garton Ash exemplifies the robust civility he recommends as an antidote to the pervasive unhappiness, nervousness and incoherence around freedom of speech, rightly seeing the basic challenge as how we create a cultural and moral climate in which proper public argument is possible and human dignity affirmed.--Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and former Archbishop of Canterbury

Timothy Garton Ash aspires to articulate norms that should govern freedom of communication in a transnational world. His work is original and inspiring. Free Speech is an unfailingly eloquent and learned book that delights as well as instructs.--Robert Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School

"A thorough and well-argued contribution to the quest for global free speech norms."Kirkus Reviews

"There are still countless people risking their lives to defend free speech and struggling to makelonely voices heard in corners around the world where voices are hard to hear. Let us hope that this book will bring confidence and hope to this world-as-city. I believe it will exert great influence.--Murong Xuecun, author of Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu

"Garton Ash impresses with fact-filled, ideas-rich discussion that is routinely absorbing and illuminating."Malcolm Forbes, The American Interest

"Particularly timely. . . . Garton Ash argues forcefully that . . . there is an increasing need for freer speech . . . A powerful, comprehensive book."Economist

Timothy Garton Ash rises to the task of directing us how to live civilly in our connected diversity.John Lloyd, Financial Times

Free Speech is a resource, a weapon, an encyclopedia of anecdote, example and exemplum that reaches toward battling restrictions on expression with mountains of data, new ideas, liberating ideas.Diane Roberts, Prospect

Illuminating and thought-provoking. . . . [Garton Ashs] larger project is not merely to defend freedom of expression, but to promote civil, dispassionate discourse, within and across cultures, even about the most divisive and emotive subjects.Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Guardian

"Timothy Garton Ashs new book Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World is a rare thing: a worthwhile contribution to a debate without two developed sides. Ash does an excellent job laying out the theoretical and practical bases for the western liberal positions on free speech."Malcolm Harris, New Republic

"An informative and bracing defense of free speech liberalism in the Internet age . . . In a world where free speech can never be taken for granted, Garton Ashs free speech liberalism is a good place to start any discussion"David Luban, New York Review of Books

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