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    Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
    Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
    Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
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    Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All

    Written by Suzanne Nossel

    Narrated by Gabra Zackman

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    ""A must read. ""—Margaret Atwood

    A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of PEN America, Dare To Speak provides a pathway for promoting free expression while also cultivating a more inclusive public culture.

    Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one tweet can launch—or end—your career, and where free speech is often invoked as a principle but rarely understood, learning to maneuver the fast-changing, treacherous landscape of public discourse has never been more urgent.

    In Dare To Speak, Suzanne Nossel, a leading voice in support of free expression, delivers a vital, necessary guide to maintaining democratic debate that is open, free-wheeling but at the same time respectful of the rich diversity of backgrounds and opinions in a changing country. Centered on practical principles, Nossel’s primer equips readers with the tools needed to speak one’s mind in today’s diverse, digitized, and highly-divided society without resorting to curbs on free expression.

    At a time when free speech is often pitted against other progressive axioms—namely diversity and equality—Dare To Speak presents a clear-eyed argument that the drive to create a more inclusive society need not, and must not, compromise robust protections for free speech. Nossel provides concrete guidance on how to reconcile these two sets of core values within universities, on social media, and in daily life. She advises readers how to:

    • Use language conscientiously without self-censoring ideas;
    • Defend the right to express unpopular views;
    • And protest without silencing speech.

    Nossel warns against the increasingly fashionable embrace of expanded government and corporate controls over speech, warning that such strictures can reinforce the marginalization of lesser-heard voices. She argues that creating an open market of ideas demands aggressive steps to remedy exclusion and ensure equal participation.

    Replete with insightful arguments, colorful examples, and salient advice, Dare To Speak brings much-needed clarity and guidance to this pressing—and often misunderstood—debate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJul 28, 2020
    ISBN9780063005228
    Author

    Suzanne Nossel

    Suzanne Nossel is the CEO of PEN America, the foremost organization working to protect and advance human rights, free expression and literature. She has also served as the Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA; and held senior State Department positions in the Clinton and Obama administrations. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Nossel frequently writes op-eds for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications, as well as a regular column for Foreign Policy magazine. She lives in New York City.

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    • 3/5
      A lot of good stuff about free speech, but a little too mixed up with progressive movement politics for my taste. I’d rather a book about free speech remain above the political fray, or at least be even-handed. Also the book was a little like a handout for a speech, lots of little listicles and summaries.
    • 5/5
      A solid defense of free speech from a liberal point of view. Nossel is a member of PEN America and served in the Obama administration. She has a long history of representing people around the world whose rights of self-expression have been violated, and brings her experience to bear in the book. I appreciated the organization of the book into short chapters and sections, the extensive endnotes, and the bullet points of takeaways at the conclusion of each chapter.Nossel is a super-clear thinker and writer. If her writing were a running stream, you could count the scales on the fish. I was surprised and pleased to find thorough coverage of the myriad responsibilities that accrue to speakers in our society, including the importance of carefully listening before speaking and how to listen properly, the duty to not only include but to amplify marginalized voices and strategies for doing so. The author also argues that simply saying "more speech" or "counterspeech" is the answer to free speech conflicts is insufficient and goes a long way toward illustrating what speech-counterspeech exchanges might be productive and which are likely to be unproductive. The author includes the history of U. S. jurisprudence around speech, but the parts about the law never become boring or pedantic. A brilliant treatise. I received an advanced readers copy of this book from the publisher and Netgalley and was encouraged to write an honest review.