John Gray [Straw Dogs]

Free speech, liberalism, problems of today. Can causing offence be a good thing? Philip Dodd explores this question with the Slovenian philosopher, the American author and the Danish journalist. On the 15th February 1989 the Ayatollah Komeni issued a fatwah following the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses. Flemming Rose is the man who published the Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed and ignited international controversy. Slavoj Zizek has been called the most dangerous philosopher in the West; and Camille Paglia, the cultural critic and intellectual provocateur considers the topics she can and can’t teach now in the lecture theatres of America’s universities. Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism by Slavoj Zizek is out now. Provocations: Collected Essays by Camille Paglia is out now. Flemming Rose is the author of The Tyranny of Silence, and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Washington DC.

Sarah Churchwell interviewed by Ella Whelan about her book "Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream"

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For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her a song by Simon & Garfunkel about Emily Dickinson

The most dangerous philosopher in the West? Slavoj Zizek

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Irv Lee's BFR ground briefing

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Emily Dickinson's "Hope in the Thing with Feathers" set to music for SATB choir by L Les Draeb

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