Posted on 02/10/2021 4:05:19 PM PST by yoe
Tonight, we sit down with classicist and historian (Victor Davis Hanson) to discuss the rise of critical social justice and (woke) ideology, growing limits on freedom of speech, and his take on the second ideology, growing limits on freedom of speech, and his take on the second (impeachment) trial of former President Donald Trump.
“It’s like a public-shaming like the Communist Party used to make people wear dunce caps,” Hanson says.
This is American Thought Leaders, and I’m Jan Jekielek.
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Great video, watching now. He’s brilliant.
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Ideas have consequences.
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“Ideas have consequences.”
I hope it’s in the print version.
The term “thought leader” is quite in vogue now, huh?
Fortunately for them, most people are thought followers.
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Purge Is The Game!
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Excellent. It somehow relaxing to hear him say that we’re in a period of insanity, that is like other periods of insanity.
It is my understanding that Richard Weaver’s masterwork “Ideas have consequences” has been continuously in print since it was first published in 1948.
Although it might be hard to find, a decent college library might still have it but given certain social trends, they might make you sign a permission slip in order to check it out.
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