The Motion: This House Believes the Right to Free Speech Always Includes the Right to Offend. Read more »
The Freedom of Speech and the Right to Offend
Brendan O’Neill: The Problem with Equality
“Equality is about unleashing people’s potential, not shackling them.” ~Brendan O’Neill Excerpted from a Battle of Ideas Forum in 2012. Read more »
Identity Politics is Narcissism – author Joanna Williams at the Battle of Ideas
Joanna Williams is author of “Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge” and “Consuming Higher Education: Why Learning Can’t Be Bought”, and other books. She is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent, UK and Education Editor for Spiked Online. Read more »
Brendan O’Neill: Identity Politics is fragile, needy, and intolerant
Brendan O’Neill discusses why identity politics reinforces a fragile, needy, and intolerant sense of identity and self. Read more »
Jordan Peterson: A history lesson for political radicals
Hate speech laws criminalizes people’s right to open dialogue on sensitive issues, which not only violates our right to free speech, it also cultivates fringe hate groups, while removing our ability to learn how to stand up for our personal values as mature human beings. We absolutely need free speech and the ability to offend others, so that we can encourage dialogue about difficult and emotionally charged topics. Such dialogues […] Read more »
Joe Rogan Experience #877 – Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and tenured professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. ~Joe Rogan Experience Read more »
The Gulag Archipelago and The Wisdom of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In this video we examine some of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s fascinating insights on communism, the nature of evil and the power of truth. ~Academy of Ideas Read more »
Interview with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson | Free Speech & Social Justice
In this very exciting stream, I (Roaming Millennial) interview University of Toronto professor Dr. Jordan Peterson about the controversy surrounding his opposition to Bill C-16, the importance of free speech, gender issues (including non-binary identities and pronouns), and the current prominence of social justice in academia. ~Roaming Millennial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27dshxbbPlg Read more »
The Psychology of Obedience and The Virtue of Disobedience
This is extremely relevant to the current drama playing out on the world stage. Are you willing to develop your inner sense of Self to the degree that is necessary to leave behind this corrupt system of external rule? Are you willing to take responsibility for yourself, and learn how to work together with others in a Voluntaryist manner; with those who also desire self-rule? When push comes to shove […] Read more »
Genders, Rights and Freedom of Speech
I find Professor Jordan Peterson a refreshing breath of fresh air, as he is able to articulate multilogical perspectives, avoid getting baited by motivated and/or biased reasoning, and hold a rational discourse free from being argumentative. I’ve watched more than a few of his lectures and interviews now, and am grateful that he is speaking up for truth in the face of Marxist political rhetoric. I also appreciate that he […] Read more »