E302 - The Perilous Turbulence of Free Speech - The Deeper Thinking Podcast
Published: October 8, 2025
Duration: 26:47
The Perilous Turbulence of Free Speech
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to the fragility of liberty, the paradox of dissent, and the hidden strategies of silence.
#FreeSpeech #Socrates #Galileo #McCarthyism #TiananmenSquare #PoliticalTheory
Free speech is praised as principle, but it survives only as struggle. This episode traces its paradox: that democracy must permit even voices intent on its destruction, or cease to be democracy at all. From the trial of Socrates to Galileo, from McCarthyism to Tiananmen Square, we explore how authority silences not only through b...