Censorship on Our Mind: A Worldwide Political and Philosophical Crisis

Nadine Elzein, a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, holds a PhD from University College London. Her research focuses on free will, determinism, moral responsibility, and retributive practices. Her work has included papers on the relevance of alternative possibilities, indeterminism and luck, freedom, the relevance of neuroscientific research for moral and legal responsibility, and transcendental arguments for freedom.

Edward Hadas, a research fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University, worked for 35 years in finance and financial journalism. His book Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching was published in 2020. A new book, Money, Finance, Reality, Morality, will appear in 2022. In progress are books on narratives of conflicting and complementary modernity and on economics and ethics.

Corynne McSherry, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and one of California’s top entertainment lawyers, specializes in intellectual property, open access, and Free Speech issues. She has defended online fair use, political expression, and the public domain against the assault of copyright maximalists. Her policy work includes efforts to promote net neutrality and best practices for online expression. She testified before Congress about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Section 230.

Gwen Robinson is chief editor of the Nikkei Asian Review and senior fellow at the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, specializing in Myanmar and the Southeast Asian region. From 1995-2013, she was a senior editor and correspondent at the Financial Times, working at FT’s Japan, Southeast Asian, New York, and Washington, D.C. bureaus, as well as its London headquarters. In 2004, she was a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney.

Michael Scott (moderator) is senior dean, fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, college adviser for postgraduate students, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University.

Sanford J. Ungar (moderator), president emeritus of Goucher College, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University, which documents challenges to free expression in American education, government, and civil society. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton, he was also dean of the American University School of Communication and is a former co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR.