Listen HERE Philosophy professor Peter Simpson, author of “Theocracy’s Challenge” and Political Illiberalism: A Defense of Freedom , considers the internet censorship problem in relation to deeper philosophical questions. He writes: “I’m not sure anyway I believe in free speech (as opposed to good speech) except as a second best. The ayatollah might agree, might he not?”
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Peter Simpson on Why Theocracy Is Better than Secular Liberalism
Listen HERE CUNY philosophy professor Peter Simpson has published “Theocracy’s Challenge” presenting a cogent argument for the superiority of theocracy over secular liberalism. It concludes: “The modern world has prided itself on getting rid of a theological power capable of commanding and restraining the political. Its much-touted claim is that we have thereby secured for ourselves a freedom unknown and inconceivable by a past under the deadening thrall of priests. But pride, as they say, goeth before a fall. Few things in human life can be trusted pure and left alone without external check and restraint. Most men are no…
FULL ARTICLEGilad Atzmon vs. political correctness: “I am a reactionary essentialist”
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FULL ARTICLECanadian professor John McMurtry: 9/11 epitomized NWO evil!
Tuesday, Jan. 22nd, 11 a.m. to noon Central (9-10 Pacific) on NoLiesRadio.org (then archived here a few hours after broadcast). John McMurtry, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada, was one of the first and most widely-heard voices questioning the official version of 9/11. He was savaged by the neocon media and his university was deluged with angry letters from brainwashed morons – exactly what happened to me at the University of Wisconsin a few years later!Prof. McMurtry’s new essay “The Moral Decoding of 9-11: Beyond the U.S. Criminal State” (published, in an abridged version, by the…
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