Battle Of Ideas
Roots & Wings Will Be At The Battle Of Ideas
I will be speaking at the Battle of Ideas festival, taking place at Church House, Westminster on 15 & 16 October 2022.
Extended early bird tickets are available for a short time – get yours now: www.battleofideas.org.uk/battle-of-ideas-2022-tickets/
Sessions I will be speaking on include:
Where do we draw the line between protecting children and giving them responsibility? Is it right to use state authority to criminalise childish behaviour? What does being a child or being an adult mean today?
What do we mean by ideology and what forms do they take today? How does ideology differ from other categories, such as morality or political ideals? Do we live in an era of less explicit or even silent ideologies and, if so, what are the important systems of ideas today?
In The New Puritans: how the religion of social justice captured the Western world, Andrew Doyle examines the underlying belief-systems of this ideology. How has it risen so rapidly to dominate all major political, cultural and corporate institutions?
I will also be discussing my new book:
Does the Ukraine crisis have its roots deep in the past? Have Western societies forgotten the importance of history? What can be done to reclaim a sense of historical thinking without becoming slaves to the past?
