{"id":16842,"date":"2015-10-17T00:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=16842"},"modified":"2020-12-05T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:46:52","slug":"best-books-on-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/best-books-on-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Best books on Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my picks for the 4 best books on Free Speech (old and new) for anyone new to the topic.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kindly-Inquisitors-Attacks-Thought-Expanded-ebook\/dp\/B00FLO0F78\">Kindly Inquisitors<\/a> by Jonathan Rauch<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kindly-Inquisitors-Attacks-Thought-Expanded-ebook\/dp\/B00FLO0F78\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"kindly\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kindly.jpg?resize=159%2C244\" alt=\"kindly\" width=\"159\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberty-Illustrated-Formatted-E-Readers-Unabridged-ebook\/dp\/B015BL046M\/\">On Liberty<\/a> by John Stuart Mill<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberty-Illustrated-Formatted-E-Readers-Unabridged-ebook\/dp\/B015BL046M\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"onliberty\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/onliberty.jpg?resize=155%2C244\" alt=\"onliberty\" width=\"155\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tyranny-Silence-Flemming-Rose-ebook\/dp\/B00P2YI0IS\/\">The Tyranny of Silence<\/a> by Flemming Rose<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tyranny-Silence-Flemming-Rose-ebook\/dp\/B00P2YI0IS\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"tryranny\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tryranny.jpg?resize=171%2C244\" alt=\"tryranny\" width=\"171\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Freedom-Speech-Encounter-Broadside-Lukianoff-ebook\/dp\/B00MSYUZ42\/\">Freedom From Speech<\/a> by George Lukianoff<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/freedome-from-speech.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"freedome-from-speech\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/freedome-from-speech_thumb.jpg?resize=167%2C244\" alt=\"freedome-from-speech\" width=\"167\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my picks for the 4 best books on Free Speech (old and new) for anyone new to the topic. Kindly Inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Tyranny of Silence by Flemming Rose Freedom From Speech by George Lukianoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,5,14,15,42,19],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-16842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-culture","category-humanities","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-psychology","category-sociology-social-sciences","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-4nE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37744,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/fakeyou-deep-fake-text-to-speech\/","url_meta":{"origin":16842,"position":0},"title":"FakeYou. 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