Jacob Mchangama
is the Founder and Executive Director of and a research professor at Vanderbilt University. In 2018, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia’s Global Freedom of Expression Center. He has commented extensively on free speech and human rights in outlets including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. Jacob has published in academic and peer-reviewed journals, including Human Rights Quarterly, Policy Review, and Amnesty International’s Strategic Studies. He is the producer and narrator of the podcast “Clear and Present” Danger: A History of Free Speech and the critically acclaimed book , published by Basic Books in 2022. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work on free speech and human rights.
Selected Articles
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Recent Writings
- How to kill online free speech,
- Don’t be too tempted by Europe’s plan to fix social media,
- Censorship won’t cure disinformation (featuring Jacob Mchangama and Nadine Strossen): Part 17 of answers to arguments against free speech,
- Clear and Present Danger podcast – Episode 41 – Free Speech and Racial Justice: Friends or Foes?,
- Clear and Present Danger podcast - Special Edition – Suzanne Nossel,
- Clear and Present Danger podcast – Special Edition – Daphne Keller and Kate Klonick,
- Clear and Present Danger podcast - Special Edition - Monika Bickert,
- Clear and Present Danger podcast – Episode 40 – The Age of Human Rights: Tragedy and Triumph,
- Clear and Present Danger podcast – Episode 39: The Totalitarian Temptation, Part II – Der Untergang,
- Clear and Present Danger podcast – Episode 38: The Totalitarian Temptation – Part I,
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