Freedom of Expression: Resources

American Federation of Teachers.

• Defining Mis- and Disinformation: A Toolkit for Teachers and Students.
• “How To Protect Students from Fake News,” July 22, 2023.

Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute.
“Supreme Court Collection: Freedom of Speech” for cases cited in History.

Articles

Economist magazine. On Cartoon Wars, see, e.g.:

• “Free Speech Overrides Religious Sensitivities,” Feb. 11, 2006.
• “Mutual Incomprehension, Mutual Outrage: Special Report,” Feb. 11, 2006.

The New York Times

• “The 19th Century Club That Changed the World,” Opinion by Jon Grinspan, June 7, 2024.
• “America Has a Free Speech Problem,” March 18, 2022.
• “When States Try to Take Away Freedom of Thought,” Jan. 20, 2024.
• “How Loud Billionaires Turn Wealth Into Power,” Feb. 6, 2024.

Blasi, Vincent.
“John Milton’s Areopagitica and the First Amendment,” 1996.

Cole, David

• “Who’s Cancelling Whom,” The New York Review of Books, February 8, 2024.
• “Who Should Regulate Online Speech,” TNYRB, March 21, 2024.

French, David.
“Colleges Have Gone Off the Deep End,” New York Times, April 28, 2024.

Havel, Vaclav. “The Power of the Powerless,” 1979.

Koven, Ronald. “The Meddler’s Itch,” Uncaptive Minds, no. 23, 1993.

Livio, Mario. “When Galileo Stood Trial for Defending Science,” Dec. 20, 2020.

Milton, John. “Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.” (E-text at Online Library of Liberty.)

National Geographic
“Ancient Cave Drawings, Early Human Language Linked,” Feb. 21, 2018.

Rushdie, Salman (video message and articles on).

• “Rushdie Warns Free Expression is Under Threat,” BBC video, May 2023.
• “The Defiance of Salman Rushdie,” The New Yorker, Feb. 6, 2023.

University of Chicago. Free Expression home Page. The Chicago Principles.

Zimmer, Thomas.
“The Free Speech Crisis is Not a Crisis,” March 13, 2023.

Web Site Resources: Free Expression Organizations

Article XIX (home page).

Committee to Protect Journalists.

Freedom House (home page).
See: Freedom on the Net Report: 2023

International Freedom of Expression Exchange.

PEN America (home page).
See: “America’s Censored Classrooms 2023.”

Reporters Without Borders.

The New York Times: Netherlands. See, e.g.,
“He Made a Magazine While Hiding from the Nazis,” Dec. 18, 2023.

Freedom in the World 2024: Netherlands Country Report.

Freedom of the Net Report: 2023: Netherlands.

Other Resources

“A Comprehensive Guide to the Dutch Media Landscape,” Meltwater, Jan. 2024.

Reporters Without Borders: Netherlands Country Report

“Netherlands Passes First Net Neutrality Legislation,” Free Speech Debate web site, July 12, 2012.

“The Dutch Revolution in Journalism,” Blendle.

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report drop down menu for Europe/Netherlands).

Economist magazine. Uganda.

The New York Times: Times: Uganda. See, e.g.:

• “Kony 2012: 10 Years Later,” March 8, 2022.
• “Uganda President Signs Anti-Gay Law,” May 29, 2023.
• “With Harsh Anti-LGBTQ Law, Uganda Faces Health Crisis,” Jan. 19, 2024.

Daily Monitor (Home Page)
“Bobi Wine Emboldened by Oscar Nod,” (reprint from AFP), Feb. 8, 2024.

Freedom in the World 2024: Uganda Country Report.

Human Rights Watch 2024 World Report: Uganda.

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report drop down menu for Africa/Uganda).

Other Resources

East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project: (home page):

Uganda Country Profile.

Media Viability in East Africa: Uganda (2021).

Reporters Without Borders: Uganda (2023)

“We Will Crush You: President’s Son Wars Journalists,” Sept. 12, 2022.

Recommended Film

“Bobi Wine: The People’s President,” National Geographic (nominated for an Oscar award for best documentary in 2023).

Economist magazine. Topics Index: China. See, e.g.:

• “Szeto Wah: Goodbye to A Chinese Patriot,” Jan. 3, 2011.
• “Protests Soaring as Chinese Workers Demand Their Wages,” Feb. 8, 2024.

The New York Times: Times Topics: China. See, e.g.:

• “Jailed Activist [Liu Xiaobo] Speaks Out in Video,” Aug. 8, 2013 (video).
• “Busting Chinese Bloggers,” Op-Ed by Murong Xuecon, Oct. 15, 2013.
• “Xi Xinping’s News Alert: Journalists Must Serve Party,” Feb. 22, 2016.
• “Silenced Chinese Doctor Dies from Coronavirus,” Feb. 6, 2020.
• “China’s Censorship Dragnet Targets Critics of Economy,” Jan. 31, 2024.
• “Xi Jinping’s Recipe for Total Control,” May 25, 2024.
• “China’s Role in Ukraine,” May 28, 2024.

Freedom House

• Freedom in the World 2024: China Country Report.
• "China's New Leaders Refine Internet Control,” Special Report, 2013.

Human Rights Watch: 2024 World Report: China.

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report drop down menu for Asia/China).

Selected Articles and Documents

Binyan, Liu.
“Living in Truth,” The New York Review of Books, July 17, 1997 (review of Wei Jingsheng’s Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison & Other Writings).

Charter ’08.

• Charter ’08 Manifesto, translated by P. Link, Reporters Without Borders.
• “I Have No Enemies,” Acceptance speech by Liu Xiaobo made in absentia for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

Johnson, Ian.
“Worse Than You Ever Imagined,” The New York Review of Books, November 22, 2012 (a review of five books on the Great Leap Forward).

Mirsky, Jonathan.
“How Reds Smashed Reds,” The New York Review of Books. November 11, 2010 (a review of five books on the Cultural Revolution).

Rogin, Josh.
“China Is Getting Away With Cultural Genocide in Tibet,” Washington Post, Nov. 1, 2023.

UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR)
“Experts Alarmed by Separation of 1 Million Tibetan Children,” Feb. 6, 2023.

Wei Jingsheng.
“The Fifth Modernization” (1978). East Asia Institute of Columbia University.

Selected Web Sites

Human Rights in China, Amnesty International (web page).

Laogai Museum, and Laogai Research Foundation (Warning: disturbing images are shown).