Western academia fixates on European sins while excusing or ignoring Arab ones, perhaps out of fear of Islamophobia accusations or lingering Orientalist guilt.
Reimagining free speech as a privilege honors its spirit without idolizing its form. Rights are shields for the vulnerable; privileges are swords for the responsible.
A review of Daniel Laurison’s Producing Politics, showing how campaigns function less as democratic arenas and more as elite-driven industries that shape power and exclude outsiders.