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Professor Nigel Biggar talks to Quillette's Toby Young about academic outrage mobs and how to defeat them

Professor Nigel Biggar talks to Quillette's Toby Young about academic outrage mobs and how to defeat them

FromQuillette Podcast


Professor Nigel Biggar talks to Quillette's Toby Young about academic outrage mobs and how to defeat them

FromQuillette Podcast

ratings:
Length:
48 minutes
Released:
May 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about his experience of being mobbed by his colleagues. They discuss what motivates academic outrage mobs and what can be done to defend free speech at British and American universities.
Released:
May 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Quillette is an online magazine founded by Australian writer Claire Lehmann. The publication has a primary focus on science, technology, news, culture, and politics.