Last term's IHR 'Earlier Middle Ages' seminar ended on a high note, with Irene van Renswoude from Utrecht talking on 'The rhetoric of free speech in … more
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free speech
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Free speech and the medieval Jew
@ 2006-10-19 – 15:00:47
[ ... ] enthusiastic about free speech think that the second and third forms of hate speech should be allowed, since they distinguish very clearly between ... more -
The problem of non-believers
@ 2006-10-12 – 23:07:54
The Muslim veil argument rumbles on, with some good articles in the Guardian (see e.g. David Edgar: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1892543,00.html). … more -
Ban the Bonnet
@ 2006-10-07 – 20:44:18
[ ... ] the limits of free speech and free dress, but Jack Straw’s soft bigotry (Oh, you can do that, but it’d be better if you didn’t, because it ... more -
What does academic freedom mean?
@ 2006-07-31 – 14:20:25
A recent article in the New York Times by the notable (or notorious) literary scholar Stanley Fish (http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F6071EFC3F5B0C708EDDAE0894DE404482 … more -
Offensive cartoons
@ 2006-07-21 – 21:40:42
[ ... ] The belief that free speech should be unlimited can only be maintained by the blind refusal to admit that there is often a connection between ... more -
The case for censorship
@ 2005-10-23 – 10:44:07
[ ... ] even if you accept free speech, there is likely to be some point at which you feel that the harmful moral effect created outweighs this. For ... more -
Who can we hate?
@ 2005-06-22 – 09:38:00
[ ... ] of unlimited free speech: incitement to racial hatred is already a crime. The argument that most liberals who oppose the law seem to be ... more
