No Market for the Marketplace of Ideas
18th February 2016
Mark Steyn underscores some inconvenient truth.
If you notice, fewer and fewer young people are even willing to pay lip-service to a “marketplace of ideas”. I used the phrase to no great effect among the audience and panelists of the ABC’s “Q&A” on Monday night and found few takers. If you put the “marketplace of ideas” up against the strict enforcement of correct views on gays, climate change, transgender rights, Islam, etc, on virtually any campus in the western world and took a vote, the “marketplace of ideas” would lose.