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RACE, SCIENCE AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
A second extract from the talk I gave last week on ‘Why both sides are wrong in the race debate’. I posted the first extract yesterday. The full transcript is on my archive site. For an even fuller...
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THE TRAGIC IRONIES OF BREIVIK’S TERROR
Three weeks ago London marked the sixth anniversary of the 7/7 tube bombings. Now Oslo will have its own heart-wrenching day of remembrance every year. Even for those who lived through 7/7 – not to...
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ANDERS BREIVIK AND THE CULTURE OF DELUSION
‘We want to create a European version of al-Qaeda’, the ‘most successful revolutionary movement in the world’. So claimed Anders Behring Breivik at his trial in Oslo last week. In his sick, twisted,...
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH MULTICULTURALISM? [PART 2]
This is the second part of the transcript of my Milton K Wong lecture that I delivered in Vancouver last week. I posted the first part earlier this week. The talk will be broadcast in full on 22 June...
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THE PLEASURES OF PLURALISM, THE PAIN OF OFFENCE
I gave two talks this weekend. One was on ‘Turning diversity on its head’ at the sixth anniversary celebration of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB), the other on’Offence and censorship’ at...
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MIGRATION AND MORALITY
Review of Exodus by Paul Collier (Allen Lane) Migration, Paul Collier observes ‘affects many groups, but only one has the practical power to control it: the indigenous population of host societies.’...
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AN OPEN DOOR TO DISASTER?
As I am away this week, there are no new posts, but I am delving into the archives for material not previously published on Pandaemonium. Back in 2004 I made a programme for BBC Radio 4′s Analysis...
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TRUST IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY
Sociologists have traditionally thought about the consequences of ethnic diversity in one of two ways. The ‘conflict’ model claims that the more that diverse groups interact, the more social tension...
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TO SEE BEYOND THE STEREOTYPES
This essay was published in the Observer, 5 April 2015, under the headline ‘Diversity and immigration are not the problem. Political courage is…’ Two events this week, some 2000 miles apart, captured...
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ON FENCES AND FRACTURES
This is a transcript of my Stephen Lissenburgh Memorial Lecture that I gave on 23 September at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. It was entitled ‘What’s wrong with...
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CAN SOCIAL COHESION BE IMPOSED?
These are my introductory comments to a debate on ‘Can Social Cohesion be Imposed?’, part of the ‘Diverse or Divided?’ conference organised by the IPPR and Canada House, London. Other speakers in the...
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THE STRUGGLE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
This is a transcript of the keynote lecture I gave at the annual conference of the Riksantikvarieämbetet (the Swedish National Heritage Board) in Stockholm this week. The theme of the conference was...
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HOW SHOULD WE LIVE IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY?
This is a transcript of my talk at the Castrum Peregrini in Amsterdam on 2 May. (Apologies for the lack of links and references; I will sort them out in due course when I have more time.) ‘Can Europe...
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CONNECTEDNESS AND DISCONNECTEDNESS
In 2010, I spoke at a seminar in Oxford when Timothy Garton Ash launched his Free Speech project to explore the state of free speech in the contemporary world. Now, out of that project has come Garton...
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JYLLANDS-POSTEN AND THE AYATOLLAH WITHIN
Flemming Rose is the former culture editor of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten who, in 2005, published the Muhammed cartoons and launched a global controversy. In a new book, De Besatte (The...
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DECOLONIZING OUR MINDS?
This essay was published in the Observer, 19 February 2017. ‘They Kant be serious!’, spluttered the Daily Mail headline in its most McEnroish tone. ‘PC students demand white philosophers including...
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GRASPING DIVERSITY, EMBRACING DEMOCRACY
This is the keynote talk I gave at the 2017 Karlsruhe Dialogues on ‘The Pluralistic Society and its Enemies’ on 4 March 2017. It was entitled entitled ‘Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy...
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