48 min listen
Is "cancel culture" really constricting free speech?
FromThe Minefield
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jul 15, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
How does liberal democracy manage incommensurable disagreement? Do the moral and political demands for justice and inclusion trump the principles of free expression and open debate? What is the moral status of "opinion"?
Released:
Jul 15, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Democratic politics is being challenged, but is it changing?: What are we to make of the fact that, in a time when democratic politics is being radically challenged by a series of seismic shocks, and when ideas or options once thought impossible are now squarely back ‘on the table’, our political leaders and their opponents have rarely seemed more conventional? David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and host of the Talking Politics podcast, joins us to dissect this political moment. by The Minefield