The Resilience of a Controversial Intellectual

This chapter explores the notion of heresy through the lens of an individual facing backlash for a controversial statement. It emphasizes the importance of resilience and maintaining one's voice against societal pressures and norms.

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🔥 The Moral Case for DEPORTATION.

Lionel Shriver — the outspoken author of We Need to Talk About Kevin — joins me to explore one of the most controversial ideas in modern politics: the moral case for deportation. In this no-holds-barred conversation, we tackle immigration, national identity, and whether Western nations have the right to set limits on who stays and who goes.

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Shriver reflects on the cultural and political shifts that have made it taboo to discuss border control openly, and why she believes fiction writers, publishers, and progressives have abandoned honest dialogue in favor of virtue-signaling and silence. From the role of elites to the collapse of independent thinking in publishing, this is Lionel Shriver at her most candid.

🎙️ We talk:

- Why mass immigration isn’t always virtuous

- The fear of being labelled “far-right”

- What happens when truth becomes hate speech

- The future of free expression in literature and beyond

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