Konstantin Kisin: Can Western Civilization Survive without Free Speech?
Socrates in the City
Socrates in the City
4.7 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Is the West inherently bad? Konstantin Kisin, Writer, social commentator, co-host of TRIGGERnometry and comedian, sits down with Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas to discuss how the rise of ‘woke culture’ undermines the multifaceted history of the West. They explore the limits of free speech, the balance between fear and change, and the relationship of shame and truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, folks. Welcome to Socrates in the city. What city, you ask. London, England. I'm in London, England. The larger topic for this season of Socrates in the city is what's the future of the West? |
| 0:22.1 | Specifically today, I will be speaking with Constantine Kissen on the question, |
| 0:27.8 | can Western civilization survive without free speech? |
| 0:32.9 | Who you ask is Constantine Kissen? |
| 0:35.6 | Some of you ask. |
| 0:37.0 | He is a writer, a social commentator. He's a |
| 0:40.8 | comedian, so they say. He's the co-host of Triggerometry, Triggerometry, which boasts a zillion, |
| 0:49.5 | don't quote me, but I think it's literally a zillion.2 followers on YouTube. He's a regular on |
| 0:54.0 | British and American TV and radio shows, including, for example, |
| 0:58.1 | Question Time, Good Morning, Britain, BBC, Breakfast, Daily Politics, Tucker Carlson, |
| 1:04.5 | Megan Kelly, yada, yada, yada. |
| 1:06.0 | His first book is titled An Immigrants Love Letter to the West. It was published in 22. It's a Sunday |
| 1:16.0 | Times bestseller, and now it falls to me to welcome Constantine Kissin. Welcome. |
| 1:22.9 | I've been excited to talk to you until now. I've gotten very used to the idea. No, I am excited to talk to you until now. |
| 1:29.4 | I've gotten used to the idea. |
| 1:34.3 | No, I am excited to talk to you for many reasons, which is always challenging because I don't know where to start. |
| 1:35.1 | Let's start with this. |
| 1:39.5 | I want to talk principally about free speech. |
| 1:43.7 | So you've talked about this. |
| 1:45.5 | You debated at the Oxford Union and your opening speech, short speech, but it seems to have gone viral. |
| 1:55.9 | Would you agree with that? |
| 1:57.5 | I would. |
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