Andrew Doyle: Trapped Between Woke Dogma and Right-Wing Populism

You're listening to The Michael Shermer Show. All right, everybody, it's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. Guess what? I have a special returning champion guest here. He is Andrew Doyle.

He was on uh uh maybe two years ago, I think it was for the uh new Puritans, right? But let me, Andrew, give you a proper introduction here. He's a writer, satirist, and political commentator who regularly appears on television to discuss current events and affairs, and he's a panelist on the BBC's moral maze. He's written for a number of publications including The Telegraph, Sun, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Standpoint, Spectator, and Sunday Times.

He's the creator of the satirical character Titania McGrath, one of my favorites, under whose name he has written two books, Woke, A Guide to Social Justice, and My First Little Book of Intersexual Activism, both published by Little Brown. Titania McGrath has over a half a million followers on Twitter, now X. Formerly he is a visiting research fellow at Queen's University Belfast and a lecturer at Oxford, university where he earned his doctorate in Renaissance literature. His previous books include Free Speech and Why It Matters, The New Puritans, for which he was on this show before, How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World, and his new book, here it is, I have it in Audio.

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