From the Sydney Opera House a 54 minute podcast in the Radio Australia Big Ideas series.
We are children of the Enlightenment, that fruitful period of the 17th and 18th centuries that gave birth to our modern ways.
Surely now we have come this far there is no turning back? Not according to the five distinguished speakers on this forum. The ideas of the Enlightenment need to be protected, they say, lest they be dismantled bit-by-bit in a new climate of fear.
SpeakersWe are children of the Enlightenment, that fruitful period of the 17th and 18th centuries that gave birth to our modern ways.
Surely now we have come this far there is no turning back? Not according to the five distinguished speakers on this forum. The ideas of the Enlightenment need to be protected, they say, lest they be dismantled bit-by-bit in a new climate of fear.
Frank Furedi
Professor of Sociology, University of Kent, UKJames Spigelman
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSWDr Arthur Herman
Writer and former Professor of HistoryDr Jonathan Le Cocq
School of Music, University of Canterbury, UKAyaan Hirshi Ali
Writer and cultural commentator
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