We are truly in a free speech recession.

From 1992 to 2003, a peak in global press freedom, at least 133 journalists were killed by criminal, political, or religious groups. During a free speech recession between 2004 and 2020, 487 journalists were killed by such non-state actors.

Jacob Mchangama’s Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media should be on everybody’s reading list!