Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-09-05
Books mentioned on Is Social Justice A Religion? - Andrew Doyle - #522
Andrew Doyle is Titania McGrath, host of GB News, a comedian and a writer. There are some new puritans in town.
Andrew Doyle discussed The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Crucible
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a classic theatrical play dramatizing the Salem witch trials as an allegory for state-sponsored persecution and conformity.
Discussed“the um arthur miller when he wrote the crucible which is his dramatization of the witch trials in salem it was written in the early 50s i think 1952 1953 uh he wrote that because of mccarthyism”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The New Puritans
“well you know i've written a book now about it i'm i'm i i think we need to stop tolerating it i think we need to laugh it out of existence”
Passing 1984
“or they've you know i mean you just have to read 1984 to understand how how that's working”
Passing The Gulag Archipelago
“They've been all in um in the archipelago there's an example of this uh where solzhenitsyn talks about”
Passing The Sun Also Rises
“or when like when they put trigger warnings on major works of literature and in universities like um the old man in the sea the hemingway book which had a trigger warning that said warned about that this book contains scenes of graphic fishing”
Plugged The New Puritans
“and if they want to read my new book it's called the new puritans and that is kind of my last word on the culture war base i mean i've basically said everything i've got to say about it i can't draw a line underneath that with it within that book so i think that would be the way to”