In Defence of Freedom of Speech: From Ancient Greece to Andrew Bolt by Chris Berg Institute of Public Affairs and Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, 2012, 247 pages, $24.95 Australia’s senior politicians, judges, and opinion makers have received a book titled In Defence of Freedom of Speech: From Ancient Greece to Andrew Bolt, by Chris Berg. They should read it to discover what it took to institute freedom of speech, how it evolved through the centuries, and what a valuable and vulnerable right it is. Berg’s book is scholarly without being scholastic, comprehensive without being exhaustive, and intellectual without being fashionably…
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