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A criticism, before the shootings, of Charlie Hebdo

Christopher Booker: What 'free speech' didn’t tell us about Charlie Hebdo jokes

Libertarian economics

On the virtue of tolerance. "You wouldn’t celebrate Osama’s death, only Thatcher’s. And you wouldn’t call ISIS savages, only Fox News. Fox is the outgroup, ISIS is just some random people off in a desert. You hate the outgroup, you don’t hate random desert people."

karen straughan - an anti-anti-anti-feminist

cited by Gareth

https://youtu.be/kTWSoM1_6KM

book review

I want to be completely clear, in case I haven’t already: I am not advocating panic. On the contrary, if you act with respect for the unknown and with proper precaution, you can “prep” on your terms. Because you want to, rather than on others’ terms, because you have to. And, once again, I am not a virologist. I know nothing about the science of the virus that I can usefully disseminate. Seek out this information separately and take it seriously. But I do know quite a lot about risk. And right now, I see a serious risk of intellectual morons misleading the general public about risk. This must not be allowed to happen. As I have no skills to help with the virus, I would like to at least try to help in this small way instead.

Skinner's pigeons

John Gray

John Gray

censorship

Academy of Ideas Frank Furedi Claire Fox

supposedly unbiased

Edward Luttwak interviewed. Lovable monsters, sometimes, but always monsters. Rebel angels. Reprobates. Rock stars. You name it. We admire them, and hope that they fail, not because of who they are, primarily, but because of how their success or failure makes our own ambitions look petty.

John Gray