#AmListeningTo a new #podcast
to me, "Clear and Present Danger: A history of free speech".

Great guests including Peter Adamson #hopwag and Teresa Bejan.

http://www.freespeechhistory.com/episodes-2/

#philosophy #FreeSpeech

Re last mini-thread, reminded of the recent #hopwag episode (408) Constitutional Conventions: The Huguenots. https://historyofphilosophy.net/huguenots

The podcast mentions thr work Francogallia by François Hotman. It was translated into English by #RobertMolesworth. His preface was later published separately as "The Principles of a True Whig" which outlined his commitment to the "Gothic Constitution" which guaranteed liberty and ruled out absolutism.

https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/champion-an-account-of-denmark-with-francogallia-and-some-considerations-for-the-promoting-of-agriculture-and-employing-the-poor

"If Sterne has had any one great master in his eye—it was Swift, his countryman—the first wit of this or any other nation;—but there is this grand difference between them—Swift excels in grave-faced irony—whilst Sterne lashes his whips with jolly laughter."

The verdict of #IgnatiusSancho.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66908/66908-h/66908-h.htm#LETTER_LXVII_TO_MR_M_mdash

Sancho corresponded with #LaurenceSterne from 1766. The publication of the letters after Sterne's death made Sancho famous.
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-the-letters-of-the-late-ignatius-sancho-an-african-1782

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sancho-banneker #hopwag

"If Sterne has had any one great master in his eye—it was Swift, his countryman—the first wit of this or any other nation;—but there is this grand difference between them—Swift excels in grave-faced irony—whilst Sterne lashes his whips with jolly laughter."

The verdict of #IgnatiusSancho (10 June, 1778) who corresponded with Sterne from 21 July 1766. His letters were published in a 1775 edition of Sterne’s Letters, making Sancho famous.

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-only-surviving-manuscript-letters-of-ignatius-sancho

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sancho-banneker #hopwag

"If Sterne has had any one great master in his eye—it was Swift, his countryman—the first wit of this or any other nation;—but there is this grand difference between them—Swift excels in grave-faced irony—whilst Sterne lashes his whips with jolly laughter."

The verdict of #IgnatiusSancho (10 June, 1778) who corresponded with Sterne from 21 July 1776. His letters were published in a 1775 edition of Sterne’s Letters, making Sancho famous.

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-only-surviving-manuscript-letters-of-ignatius-sancho

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sancho-banneker #hopwag

Jackson Reinhardt interview with Peter Adamson #HOPWAG on his new book "Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy"
https://newbooksnetwork.com/dont-think-for-yourself