Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Mariella Pandolfi is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal. She recently co-authored with Laurence McFalls “Therapeusis and Parrhesia” in James Faubion, ed., Foucault Now, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2014 ; and “Global Bureaucracy: Irresponsible but not Indifferent” in Alessandro Dal Lago et Salvatore Pallida, eds., Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society: The Civilization of War, Routledge, Abingdon, 2014.
What does it actually mean to speak truth to power? In his final two lectures, Michel Foucault discussed the risk...