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Who’s listening? Civilized debate is dead

5 November 2019

4:59 AM

5 November 2019

4:59 AM

This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here.

Today nearly all real public discussion has become impossible. Which is why nearly all public thinking has become impossible. Which is why the thinking has gone bad on nearly every major issue now facing us.

It isn’t just politics that is finding it hard to operate.

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