466: Jacob Mchangama | The Free Speech Recession: A Global Decline in Expression

466: Jacob Mchangama | The Free Speech Recession: A Global Decline in Expression

April 22, 2026

About this episode

Armen speaks with Jacob Mchangama about the global decline in free speech and the implications of his new book.

In this episode, Armen speaks with legal scholar and free speech advocate Jacob Mchangama about the shifting global landscape of expression. Drawing on his new book The Future of Free Speech, Mchangama outlines a central claim: we are in the middle of a “free speech recession,” where both democratic and authoritarian systems are increasingly restricting […]

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