Is Free Speech Under Threat?

Human Rights › Others

Is Free Speech Under Threat?

Edited by Charlotte Lydia Riley · Suzanne Nossel
Vintage October 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781529935714
Publisher
Vintage
Publication
October 2025
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

In a book that can be read from either end, two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times.

Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, argues that alongside the necessary and long-overdue elevation of minority voices in recent years, there has also arisen an uncompromising intolerance - most notably on university campuses and online - that wrongly equates a wide range of offensive speech with violence and seeks to shut it down. This has led to an escalating free speech arms race, from which everyone loses.

Charlotte Lydia Riley, historian of empire and editor of The Free Speech Wars, argues that accusations of cancel culture and defences of free speech are too often disingenuous attempts to fuel a culture war and so inhibit an important realignment in which hateful speech is at last being called out for what it is and the right to free expression is being extended to more people than ever before.

HKD 146.00

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Human Rights

View all
Confronting the Internet's Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway
Cambridge University Press

Confronting the Internet's Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway

Raphael Cohen-Almagor
HKD 466.57
Mind and Rights: The History, Ethics, Law and Psychology of Human Rights
Cambridge University Press

Mind and Rights: The History, Ethics, Law and Psychology of Human Rights

Matthias Mahlmann
HKD 491.79
Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights
Oxford University Press

Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights

Johanna Bond
HKD 1,387.10
The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal, 2nd Edition
Oxford University Press

The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal, 2nd Edition

Philip Alston; Federic Megret
HKD 882.70
Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law
Cambridge University Press

Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law

Evelyne Schmid
HKD 504.40
Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain
Cambridge University Press

Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain

Christopher Moores
HKD 1,223.17