Postcards from the Global Free Speech Recession

By Peter Bonilla July 30, 2026 1 min read

Postcards from the Global Free Speech Recession

By Peter Bonilla
MIT Free Speech Alliance

Having spent most of the past 20 years in the free speech movement, I highly recommend The Future of Free Speech. It gives a good birds-eye view of modern speech trends in the free and unfree world alike, where authoritarian countries have become more authoritarian and liberal democracies less liberal and democratic. The U.S. remains the gold standard, but the book leaves me wondering if we have the political will to keep it that way.Below are some of my key impressions and takeaways from the book.

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