Welcome to within reason.

My name is Alex O'Connor.

Andrew Doyle is a playwright, journalist, political commentator, and satirist.

He's the creator of Titania McGrath, a parody of an ultra- woke militant Twitter warrior. He's also co-written for the

fictional news reader Jonathan Pye. He's the author of Free Speech and Why It Matters

and He joins me today to talk about his most recent book, The New Puritans, how the religion

of social justice captured the Western world.

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Bart Ehrman is one of the world's most famous New Testament

Scholars. I recently had him on my podcast

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With that said, here's Andrew Doyle.

Andrew Doyle, thank you for coming.

Alex O'Connor, thank you for having me.

It's an interesting title, The New Puritans,

how the religion of social justice captured the Western world, your latest book.

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