Robert Lever January 7, 2024    READ

PHILOSOPHER John Gray says we are in an era of ‘illiberal liberalism’ characterised by a growing tendency to espouse contrived and feeble ideological positions, and to promote them with dogmatic zeal, stifling all opposition and denying others the tolerance that granted the freedom to express such opinions in the first place. 

The speed with which some of these intellectually flabby ideas proliferate is enhanced worryingly by technology and social media to produce a collective hysteria and a momentum that eclipses logic, insight, intelligence and common sense.