The Challenges to Enlightenment Thought

Brendan O'Neill talks to Peter Hitchens about defending the Enlightenment values of reason, freedom and tolerance. He says there are a number of different challenges to Enlightenment thought at the moment: Woke Challenge, right-wing identity politics; technocratic undermining of Enlightenment as well. The only way that we can defend those values is that we have to have an infrastructure that allows us to question, and to challenge, and to argue,. And when we get slapped around, or when we stumble, we need to pick ourselves up and keep going, he says.