Censoring offensive language threatens our freedom to think
The modern obsession with textual purity stems from a misapplication of the philosophies of Wittgenstein and Derrida
by Paul Ham
Paul Ham is a historian and lecturer in narrative history at Sciences Po in France. He is the author of the book The Soul: A History of the Human Mind, to be published by Penguin Random House in July 2024, and the creator of the forthcoming substack column ‘Who Made Our Minds?’
Written by Paul Ham