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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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THREE MYTHS OF IMMIGRATION
I am giving the Milton K Wong Lecture in Vancouver in June. Entitled ‘What’s Wrong with Multiculturalism? A European Perspective’, it will try to explain to a Canadian audience, for whom...
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‘CONFLICTING CREDOS BUT THE SAME VISION OF THE WORLD’
This is a transcript of the first part of the talk I gave last week as part of the Criticise This! seminar in Ulcinj, Montenegro on ‘Rethinking the Question of Difference’. (The second part of the talk...
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LLOYD NEWSON IN DEFENCE OF ‘CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?’
Back in March I published a review of DV8′s extraordinary show Can We Talk About This?. I was both positive and critical of the show. It was I wrote, ‘unmissable theatre’, both ‘thought provoking and...
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH MULTICULTURALISM? [PART 1]
I gave the Milton K Wong lecture in Vancouver on Sunday. I very much enjoyed the event- it was a stunning venue, a superb audience and a good discussion of the issues. My thanks to the Laurier...
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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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MULTICULTURALISM – THE BROADCAST
My Milton K Wong lecture, ‘What’s wrong with multiculturalism?’, that I gave in Vancouver earlier this month, was broadcast on CBC on Friday. I have already posted the transcript of the talk, in two...
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MULTICULTURALISM: THE INTERVIEW
I recently gave an interview for the Open University course on ‘Why is religion controversial?’. The interview is actually not about religion but about multiculturalism. It is somewhat oddly edited in...
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DIVERSITY, THE MARKET AND ARTISTIC FREE EXPRESSION
I took part last week in a conference on artistic free expression called ‘Taking the Offensive’ organized by Index on Censorship. It was the culmination of a long project through which Index on...
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MULTICULTURALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
My big book – on the history of moral thought – will be published by Atlantic next spring. Before that comes a little book. Multiculturalism and its Discontents is an extended essay that pulls...
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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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…BUT AGAINST MULTICULTURALISM
Earlier this week, I posted an essay ‘In defence of diversity’. But if I am in favour of diversity, I am most certainly critical of multiculturalism. I have long argued that while we should value...
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UNPACKING A TROJAN HORSE
My latest column for the International New York Times is about the ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal in Britain. Here are the opening paragraphs; the full version is in the INYT, where it was published under the...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: ILLUSIONS OF IDENTITY
As I am away for a couple of weeks, I am plundering the archives. This is the second in a series of old book reviews on the themes of race, difference and identity material that I have not previously...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: BETWEEN CAMPS
Continuing to plunder the archives while I am away, this is the third in my series of old book reviews on the theme of race, identity and difference. It is a review of Paul Gilroy’s Between Camps and...
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WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH MULTICULTURALISM?
This is a transcript of my talk about multiculturalism that I gave to the Secularism 2014 conference in London last week. For a more detailed discussion of multiculturalism, see my Milton K Wong...
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ASSIMILATIONISM VS MULTICULTURALISM
One of the key debates in European social policy has been that between multiculturalism and assimilationism. French ‘assimilationist’ policies are generally seen as the polar opposite of British-style...
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BRITAIN AND FRANCE, CENSORSHIP AND IDENTITY
I took part in a discussion at the Institut Français in London featuring the French film-maker Karim Miské, whose debut novel Arab Jazz, a noirish policier set in a Parisian banlieue, has just been...
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THE FAILURE OF MULTICULTURALISM
This is an essay about multiculturalism in Europe that I wrote for the latest issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, which has a series of features on ‘The Trouble with Race’. 1 Thirty years ago, many...
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ON MULTITUDES
We are in Bradford, shortly after a fractious general election, and with the country about to go to war in the Middle East. The Conservatives are holding their party conference in the city. Protestors...
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