DOUGLAS MURRAY | The Price Of Thinking Out Loud | Modern Wisdom Podcast 109

Douglas Murray is a journalist, author and an associate editor of The Spectator. What is the price of thinking out loud about the most inflammatory topics of our age? Gay, Women, Race & Trans make up the four chapters of The Madness Of Crowds and today Douglas jumps feet first into all of them. Expect to learn which chapters Douglas could have added to the book but didn’t, how the LGBTQ community are less united than you may think, why we should be skeptical about the number of gay stories in the press, why Piers Morgan seems to be in the middle of so many controversies, what Douglas thinks about Nicki Minaj shaking her butt in everyone's face and why the demands of men by women may be totally unrealistic. A massive thank you to all of you for your support over the last year as this episode marks Modern Wisdom's crossing of 1 Million Total Downloads!! This episode is brought to you by The 6 Minute Diary, get yours here - https://amzn.to/2ALGrnN #douglasmurray #freespeech - Extra Stuff: Buy The Madness Of Crowds - https://amzn.to/35egrPU Follow Douglas on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

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Oct 7, 20191h 3mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: October 7, 2019
Duration: 1h 3m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Douglas Murray is a journalist, author and an associate editor of The Spectator. What is the price of thinking out loud about the most inflammatory topics of our age? Gay, Women, Race & Trans make up the four chapters of The Madness Of Crowds and today Douglas jumps feet first into all of them. Expect to learn which chapters Douglas could have added to the book but didn’t, how the LGBTQ community are less united than you may think, why we should be skeptical about the number of gay stories in the press, why Piers Morgan seems to be in the middle of so many controversies, what Douglas thinks about Nicki Minaj shaking her butt in everyone's face and why the demands of men by women may be totally unrealistic. A massive thank you to all of you for your support over the last year as this episode marks Modern Wisdom's crossing of 1 Million Total Downloads!! This episode is brought to you by The 6 Minute Diary, get yours here - https://amzn.to/2ALGrnN #douglasmurray #freespeech - Extra Stuff: Buy The Madness Of Crowds - https://amzn.to/35egrPU Follow Douglas on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

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Chris Williamson
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Douglas Murray and Chris Williamson, DOUGLAS MURRAY | The Price Of Thinking Out Loud | Modern Wisdom Podcast 109 explores douglas Murray Dissects Identity Politics, Free Speech, And Modern Dogmas Douglas Murray discusses his book *The Madness of Crowds* with Chris Williamson, focusing on how contemporary debates around women, gay rights, race, and trans issues have become volatile and dogmatic. He argues that the social cost of thinking out loud has risen so high that many people self-censor, leaving only a few with the freedom and responsibility to challenge prevailing orthodoxies. Murray links today’s identity obsessions to the collapse of grand narratives like religion and traditional political ideologies, suggesting that social justice and intersectionality now act as substitute belief systems. He calls for a return to individual character, open disagreement, and more ambitious life goals than merely being “harmless” within rigid identity hierarchies.

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