I have written an essay for the upcoming 40th anniversary issue of Index on Censorship that  explores the changing character of the free speech debate in recent decades. It includes an interview with Flemming Rose, the cultural editor of  Jyllands-Posten, whose challenge to cartoonists to depict the Prophet Muhammad helped launch the Danish cartoon controversy. I will publish the essay in full when the new issue of Index comes out in March. But here is a short extract that probes the question […]

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