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—Mahmood Mamdani considers his latest book, Slow Poison, with @juliacarriewong.bsky.social for @theguardian.com.

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Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
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November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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In a brief span of time, the freedom to use words as one pleased was reimagined as an ideal to be held and defended in common.

What Is Free Speech? by historian Fara Dabhoiwala is the unsettling history of an ideal as cherished as it is misunderstood.

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What Is Free Speech? — Harvard University Press
“A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra.” —The GuardianA leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, wit...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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From Sumeria to China to seventeenth–century Europe, premodern societies knew that some speech could destroy lives, undermine social order, and sow political unrest.

Then, in the early 1700s, something changed.
"Who can speak, who gets heard, and who makes the rules about what one can say is always about power and authority." – Fara Dabhoiwala, What Is Free Speech?
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