518: Speech, tolerance and open debates, with Mark Oppenheimer (Part 1)
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English - August 03, 2020 22:39 - 1 hour - 70.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 202 ratingsReligion & Spirituality Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 517: Is intimacy possible between people who have different worldviews?
Mark Oppenheimer is a friend of this podcast who is a signatory to a recent open letter published by Harper's Magazine, in praise of open debate and tolerance for differing opinions, and against some aspects of 'cancel culture', dogmatism and censoriousness. In this conversation with Bart Campolo, Mark chats about why he signed the letter, the limits and boundaries of free speech, the likeliest paths to progress, the effects of added scrutiny on writers at present and some of the reasons he thinks liberals have gotten less 'liberal'.
Read the letter at:
https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
Read Ross Douthat's 10 theses on cancel culture at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/opinion/cancel-culture-.html