From Socrates to Social Media: In Conversation with Jacob Mchangama

In this week’s episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to Jacob Mchangama about his ambitious new forthcoming book Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media. Preorder the book here.

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Jacob Mchangama

Jacob Mchangama is the founder and director of Justitia, a civil liberties think tank in Copenhagen. He has written and commented extensively on free speech and human rights including in Washington Post, NY Review of Books, Wall Street Journal Europe and The Economist.

Iona Italia

Iona Italia is Areo Magazine's editor-in-chief and the host of the associated podcast Two for Tea. She is the author of two books: Anxious Employment (a study of eighteenth-century essayists) and Our Tango World (sociological and philosophical musings on dance and life). Her political essays can be found here; she also publishes weekly creative non-fiction pieces on her Substack, The Second Swim.