Philip Gourevitch

Editor of the Paris Review and a long-time staff writer for the New Yorker

Philip is the author of “A Cold Case” (2001) and “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda” (1998), winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and in England, the Guardian First Book Award.

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Freedom of Expression Must Include the License to Offend

With David Cesarani, Philip Gourevitch, Christopher Hitchens, Daisy Khan, Mari Matsuda, Signe Wilkinson

October 17, 2006

Heralding the First Amendment, proponents of free speech champion the right to expression unencumbered by government intervention. But is freedom of expression absolute and limitless? Should we be free to use words with the intention to harm? Should some words remain unspoken, or does this mind-set lead us to the path of censorship?

Freedom of Expression Must Include the License to Offend

With David Cesarani, Philip Gourevitch, Christopher Hitchens, Daisy Khan, Mari Matsuda, Signe Wilkinson

October 17, 2006

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