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OF COURSE THERE IS. IT’S GONE THROUGH DARK PERIODS BEFORE: From Magna Carta to Denouncing the West: Is There Hope for the Great Albion?
One Battle After Another is a brainless but fun action comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson, who has a penchant for coming up with bad titles for good movies, like his There Will Be Blood. Even in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, this slapdash tale of a gang of 1970s-style leftist terrorists has been attracting […]
From a 2020 interview: Jennifer Grossman [43:41]: Is Cultural Marxism a real thing? Where are the greatest dangers? And how can we fight against it? Maybe you could just start with what is Cultural Marxism. Stephen Hicks: The quick-and-dirty version is that Cultural Marxism is a real phenomenon, and it is a danger. The quick genealogy […]
There is no offence of blasphemy in our law. Burning a Koran may be an act that many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive. The criminal law, however, is not a mechanism that seeks to avoid people being upset, even grievously upset. The right to freedom of expression, if it is a right worth having, must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.
We live in a liberal democracy. One of the precious rights that affords us is to express our own views and read, hear and consider ideas without the state intervening to stop us doing so. The price we pay for that is having to allow others to exercise the same rights, even if that upsets, offends or shocks us.
In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Steven Pinker’s new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. As Dr. Gordon aptly points out, Pinker knows a lot less than he thinks he does.
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