Truth and Freedom

Check out — Truth and Freedom: The New Clerisy’s Fondness For Censorship Makes It An Enemy of Truth, by Brendan O’Neill. The most curious thing about the political class’s war in defence of truth is that it coexists with a war against freedom of speech. In one breath, our betters, whether it’s the technocrats of the EU or broadsheet thinkers, bemoan a crisis of truth, claiming that a combination of demagoguery and populist myth-making has propelled the modern West into a ‘post-truth’ era. Yet in the next they express disdain for the ideal of unfettered free thought and debate. Whether they’re … Continue reading Truth and Freedom