Can Free Speech Be Restored In The West?

Federalist Radio Hour

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Brendan O’Neill, the chief political writer for Spiked magazine, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the groupthink that has infected the Western world and why it's important to be a heretic about the new orthodoxies wreaking havoc on our culture.

You can find O'Neill's book, "A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable," here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-heretics-manifesto-brendan-oneill/1143323507

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0:00.0	We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.0	I'm Emily Doshinsky, culture editor here at the Federalist.
0:23.2	As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com.
0:26.7	Follow us on Twitter at FDRLST.
0:29.3	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts and to the premium version of
0:33.6	our site as well.
0:35.2	Today we're joined by Brendan O'Neill, columnist, broadcaster and author of the new book,
0:40.1	A Heretics Manifesto, essays on the Unsable.
0:43.7	Brendan, thank you for joining us.
0:45.6	It's a pleasure to be here, Emily.
0:47.4	Why don't you tell us a little bit since I think you were on the show maybe a few years
0:50.9	ago, but could you tell us a little bit about your background and how you ended up as
0:56.7	a heretic?
0:57.7	Today is media climate.
0:59.7	Good question.
1:00.7	So I'm a journalist based in London.
1:04.8	I worked for the online magazine Spite.
1:06.5	I was editor of Spite for about 15 years.
1:09.2	Spite is a pro free speech, pro reason, pro enlightenment publication, a current affairs
1:15.0	publication too.
1:16.5	And I write for the Daily Mail, I write for the spectator and I've been doing that kind
1:20.5	of thing for a very long time.
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