Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2019-07-09
Books mentioned on The Fake Crusade for Free Speech
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Robert Evans discussed Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and On Liberty by John Stuart Mill.
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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a classic novel depicting pre-colonial life in Nigeria and the disruptive arrival of European imperialism.
Discussed“For example, some students have called for warnings that Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart describes racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works”
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The Great Gatsby
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Discussed“For example, some students have called for warnings that Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart describes racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works”
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On Liberty
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a foundational 19th-century philosophical essay that defends the liberty of the individual against the absolute power of the state and societal conformity.
Discussed“In his influential essay on liberty, Mill wrote this. There ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing as a matter of ethical conviction any doctrine, however immoral, it may be considered.”
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