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In this lecture, "The Printing Press, Fake News, and the Wars of Religion: Why Regulation Is Necessary for Free Speech," Professor Gillespie discusses how speech always occurs within a particular social context. Free and effective speech is only possible when there are established rules for communication. The development of the internet has disrupted the prevailing orders of communication with dangerous consequences for morality and politics. We can learn a great deal about these dangers and possible solutions by examining the disruption ushered in by the invention of the printing press.

Professor of Political Science Michael Gillespie is the author of, Hegel, Heidegger and the Ground of History, Nihilism before Nietzsche, The Theological Origins of Modernity, and Nietzsche's Final Teaching. He is currently completing a sequel to Theological Origins of Modernity, tentatively titled the Theological Fate of Modernity.