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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

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I'm your host this week, Iona Italia. My guest today is Andrew Doyle.

Andrew is a writer, journalist, and satirist. Among other works, he is the author of

Free Speech and Why It Matters, 2021, which is the best book I've read on the topic, as well as of

the new Puritans, how the religion of social justice captured the Western world 2022.

Today, we'll be discussing his most recent book, The End of Woke,

How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution.

We focus on why Andrew believes that both the woke madness itself and some of the backlash against it

have been driven by an authoritarian impulse and why the best way to combat such impulses

is a renewed and far more thoroughgoing commitment to classical liberal ideals like free speech

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