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"Also by Timothy Garton Ash" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Post-Gutenberg" -- "Part I" -- "Cosmopolis" -- "Speech" -- "Cosmopolis" -- "Cyberspace, CA 94305" -- "The Struggle for Word Power" -- "Big Dogs" -- "Big Cats" -- "P2" -- "The Power of the Mouse" -- "'Innocence of Muslims' and the Lost Innocence of YouTube" -- "Ideals" -- "Why Should Speech Be Free?" -- "How Free Should Speech Be? How Should Free Speech Be?" -- "Not by Law Alone" -- "Laws and Norms" -- "Offended? What's the Harm in That?" -- "Reading John Stuart Mill in Beijing" -- "Towards a More Universal Universalism" -- "Part II" -- "User Guide" -- "1. Lifeblood" -- "Free and Able" -- "In Your Own Tongue" -- "Seek, Receive and Impart" -- "Regardless of Frontiers" -- "2. Violence" -- "The Assassin's Veto" -- "Modernising the Brandenburg Test" -- "Dangerous Speech" -- "Just War?" -- "Confronting the Assassin's Veto" -- "Cartoons and the Republication Dilemma" -- "Practising Peaceful Conflict" -- "3. Knowledge" -- "Scientifically Speaking" -- "On Campus" -- "Legislating History" -- "Everything Open to Everyone?" -- "Public Good via Private Power" -- "From Babel to Babble" -- "Homo Zappiens" -- "4. Journalism" -- "Media" -- "Uncensored, but Not Without Limits" -- "Diverse: Media Pluralism between Money and Politics" -- "From Daily Me to Daily Kiosk" -- "Trustworthy: Who Is a Journalist? What Is Good Journalism?" -- "Towards a Networked Pnyx" -- "5. Diversity" -- "Openness and Robust Civility" -- "Enforcing Civility?" -- "Why Mature Democracies Should Move beyond Hate Speech Laws" -- "Creating a Civil Society" -- "Art and Humour" -- "Pornography" -- "Civility and Power" -- "6. Religion" -- "The Argument for Special Treatment" -- "But What Is Religion?" -- "Two Kinds of Respect" -- "By Law or Custom?" -- "The Trouble with Islam" -- "Tolerance

For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. Facts are Subversive, which collects his writings since the millennium, addresses some of the crucial questions of our time: what happens to people who have endured long dictatorships when they try to found a democratic state? How can freedom from tyranny be won? How are free expression, equality before the law and equal rights for men and women sustained in a society of different faiths and ethnicities? This is history of the pr

"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "A Note on Names" -- "Chapter I" -- "Chapter II" -- "Chapter III" -- "Chapter IV" -- "Chapter V" -- "Chapter VI" -- "Chapter VII" -- "Chapter VIII" -- "Chapter IX" -- "Chapter X" -- "Chapter XI" -- "Chapter XII" -- "Chapter XIII" -- "Chapter XIV" -- "Chapter XV

After World War II, Europe began a process of peaceful political unification unprecedented there and unmatched anywhere else. But the project began to go wrong in the early 1990s, when western European leaders started moving too quickly toward a flawed monetary union. Now, as Europe faces a still-unresolved debt crisis, its drive toward unification has stalled -- and unless fear or foresight gets it going again, the union could slide toward irrelevance. Adapted from the source document.

Argues that the push towards unification, especially German Chancellor Kohl's drive for European Monetary Union (EMU), can distract attention from the liberal order which provides for security and liberty and should spread across the continent.

'In our time, it's quite as meaningful to talk of European barbarism as it is to talk of European civilisation'