Is Free Speech Killing Democracy?

Founder and Executive Director of Justitia, host and narrator of the podcast Clear and Present Danger: a history of free speech. Justitia is Denmark’s first judicial think tank aiming to promote the rule of law and fundamental human rights and freedom rights both within Denmark and abroad. Mchangama’s talk will take seriously the idea advanced by many that free speech has been “weaponized” by extremists and turned against the very values this freedom was meant to serve, as witnessed by the attack on the Capitol on January 6th which could not have happened without a campaign of lies and disinformation that went viral on social media. But it will use both historical and contemporary examples to argue that free speech is still the “Bulwark of Liberty.”

Respondent: Tom Keck, Professor of Political Science,

Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics

Fri., April 29, 2022

4PM

Maxwell Auditorium

This lecture is made possible through a generous gift from the Norman M. and Marsha Lee Berkman Fund

Reception and Book Signing Following Event | Parking available in Irving Garage for a small fee

Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided

Additional accommodation requests, jjnocevs.syr.edu or 315-443-5850/9707

maxwell.syr.edu/statedemocracy