Timothy Garton Ash is Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford; Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the winner of the 2017 Charlemagne Prize and has won the Orwell Prize for Journalism.
"Admirably clear, . . . wise, up-to-the-minute and wide-ranging. .
. . Free Speech encourages us to take a breath, look hard at the
facts, and see how well-tried liberal principles can be applied and
defended in daunting new circumstances."—Edmund Fawcett, New York
Times Book Review
"Particularly timely. . . . Garton Ash argues forcefully that . . .
there is an increasing need for freer speech. . . . A powerful,
comprehensive book."—Economist
"Timothy Garton Ash rises to the task of directing us how to live
civilly in our connected diversity."—John Lloyd, Financial
Times
"Illuminating and thought-provoking. . . . [Garton Ash’s] larger
project is not merely to defend freedom of expression, but to
promote civil, dispassionate discourse, within and across cultures,
even about the most divisive and emotive subjects."—Faramerz
Dabhoiwala, The Guardian
"A brave and admirable attempt to construct a platform on which
more people can find common ground, even if only on how to disagree
without killing each other. Whether the ten principles are used or
not, they are a considerable achievement."—George Brock, Times
Literary Supplement
"Free Speech is a resource, a weapon, an encyclopedia of anecdote,
example and exemplum that reaches toward battling restrictions on
expression with mountains of data, new ideas, liberating
ideas."—Diane Roberts, Prospect
Longlisted for the 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards in the
Current Events & Public Affairs category
2016 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in the Publishing
category
Selected as one of the Best Books of 2016 by The Economist
Won an Honorable Mention in the Government and Politics category
for the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional &
Scholarly Excellence (PROSE)
"A major piece of cultural analysis, sane, witty and urgently
important. Timothy Garton Ash exemplifies the 'robust civility' he
recommends as an antidote to the pervasive unhappiness, nervousness
and incoherence around freedom of speech, rightly seeing the basic
challenge as how we create a cultural and moral climate in which
proper public argument is possible and human dignity
affirmed."—Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge,
and former Archbishop of Canterbury
"Timothy Garton Ash aspires to articulate norms that should govern
freedom of communication in a transnational world. His work is
original and inspiring. Free Speech is an unfailingly eloquent and
learned book that delights as well as instructs."—Robert Post, Dean
and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
"There are still countless people risking their lives to defend
free speech and struggling to make lonely voices heard in corners
around the world where voices are hard to hear. Let us hope that
this book will bring confidence and hope to this world-as-city. I
believe it will exert great influence."—Murong Xuecun, author of
Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu
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