The biggest threat to freedom in the West is liberalism itself
Progressives everywhere are deploying the law to attack free speech. It is a bid for unchecked power that is galvanising the right.
ByJohn Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman. His latest book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Allen Lane).
Progressives everywhere are deploying the law to attack free speech. It is a bid for unchecked power that is galvanising the right.
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By John Gray