Tom Stoppard

(b.1937 in Zlin, Czechoslovakia) is a British playwright, famous for play such as The Real Thing (1982) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966), and for the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love.

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Playing the trump card

Free speech as inherent right or group consensus? How did the concept get into such a mess? Because liberalism persists in seeing a “right” as something to be claimed rather than accorded, says Tom Stoppard. If claim and counter-claim are presented as absolutes, the debate can have no resolution.

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