Summary: We’ll explore: - How coffee-houses expanded the public sphere by cultivating the sharing of news and ideas - How English writers including Matthew Tindal, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon paved the way for American ideas on free speech - How the editor of the New England Courant in Boston combined anti-vaxxer propaganda with free speech advocacy - How a jury acquitted the printer of the New York Weekly Journal Peter Zenger - How Benjamin Franklin defended legislative privilege
