13: Race is a fiction, with Thomas Chatterton Williams

13: Race is a fiction, with Thomas Chatterton Williams

Author: Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle March 11, 2021 Duration: 57:22
Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Self-Portrait in Black and White, tells Andrew Doyle why he no longer identifies as black.


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Author: Language: English Episodes: 14

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14: Charlie Hebdo’s duty to offend, with Robert McLiam Wilson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:25
Charlie Hebdo writer Robert McLiam Wilson joins Andrew Doyle to talk satire, racism and the 2015 attack.Support the show:https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-onlin…
12: Exposing critical race theory, with Christopher Rufo [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:06
Investigative journalist Christopher Rufo talks to Andrew Doyle about the racist ideology that’s taking over American life.Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support this show: https:/…
11: Has the left abandoned solidarity?, with Giles Fraser [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:24
Priest and polemicist Giles Fraser talks about his journey from revolutionary to parish priest, our human need for community, and why it’s dangerous to demonise our opponents.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.c…
10: The new clerisy, with Tom Holland [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:30
Historian Tom Holland talks to Andrew Doyle about his latest book, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, and about the Christian roots of the culture war. Support the show by making a regular donation to spiked: http…
9: Comedians aren’t activists, with Scott Capurro [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:02
Award-winning (and highly controversial) comedian Scott Capurro talks to Andrew Doyle about Scott’s ban from Australian TV, dealing with aggressive hecklers and how comedians can outsmart the easily offended.Support the…
8: Treason of the intellectuals, with Peter Boghossian [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:06
Peter Boghossian and Andrew Doyle discuss the 'legitimation crisis' in higher education, the collapse of truth in academia, and how our institutions are tearing themselves apart. Peter is assistant professor of philosoph…
7: The misogyny of trans activism, with Julie Bindel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:20
Women’s rights campaigner Julie Bindel joins Andrew Doyle to talk about the tyranny of trans extremism, the myth of ‘sex work’, and why feminism isn’t for men. But the spiked book: https://www.spiked-online.com/book/
6: Lancing the boil of cancel culture, with James Dreyfus [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:34
Sitcom star James Dreyfus joins Andrew Doyle to talk about acting during lockdown, his run-ins with the gay press and the art world’s cowardly indifference to free speech.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/d…
5: America is exhausted, with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:35
Jesse, Katie and Andrew discuss their run-ins with cancel culture, how big business went woke and what the election means for the culture wars.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/