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"The New Puritans" | Peter Boghossian Interviews Andrew Doyle (Titania McGrath) about Social Justice

Conversations with Peter Boghossian

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I Love That You Write That in the Book and Then It Changed

I think the elites of today are caught up in a hysterical moment and I think that we break out of this just as quickly if we follow the lessons of Salem. The instinct for authoritarianism is nonpartisan. It's absolutely everywhere. You see this from all sides of the political spectrum. And there's something in the human instinct that has that probably because we come from primates, state of seeking primates. We are primates. So power is important to us and the assertion of power. That's why we have civilization and socialization. That's how we escape from that stuff. And this is...

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