Hypocrisy and double standards abound where social justice movements are concerned as shown in controversies like that with Chick-fil-A. Douglas Murray sums it up well as he talks with John Anderson.
About Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray is a British conservative author, journalist and political commentator. He founded the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where he was Associate Director from 2011–18. He is also an associate editor of the British political and cultural magazine The Spectator.
His book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in May 2017. It spent almost 20 weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was a No. 1 bestseller in non-fiction. It has subsequently been published in more than 20 languages worldwide and has been read and cited by politicians around the world. The Evening Standard described it as, ‘By far the most compelling political book of the year.’
Murray has been a contributor to the Spectator since 2000 and has been Associate Editor at the magazine since 2012. He has also written regularly for numerous other outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Sun, Evening Standard and the New Criterion. He is a regular contributor to National Review and has been a columnist for Standpoint magazine since its founding.
About John Anderson
John Anderson served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia for 6 years between 1999 and 2005 under John Howard. We hope you enjoy this Conversations series where John is joined by some of the world’s foremost thought leaders to examine in detail the social, cultural and political landscape we live in today. Proper robust dialogue is necessary if we are to continue to be a successful society. As John says: “You can not get good public policy out of a bad public debate.”
