Give Speech A Chance: Heretical Essays On What You Can't Say or Even Think

In the aptly titled Give Speech a Chance, Canadian historian and essayist Harley Price notes that there is "an ever-expanding list of things you cannot say in this age of progressive 'tolerance,' and it begets the sort of self-censorship that has always been the norm in totalitarian regimes." To the enormous benefit of any reader who is not ideologically obtuse, Price proves incapable of unwarranted self-censorship, and he courageously pronounces on seemingly the entire list of "unmentionables." This book is the delightful result.--Joseph Baldacchino is editor of Humanitas Give Speech a Chance is a most entertaining read. While deadly serious in purpose, it repeatedly provokes an irrepressible smile in the reader. Harley Price fearlessly tackles the most dangerous topics - the COVID-19 panic, same sex marriage, racism, LGBTQ, abortion, etc., and skewers the pretensions of liberals and leftists with wit and erudition. His insights and arguments are so refreshing that one wishes the essays were longer.-- Ian Gentles, Ph.D.Dr. Price has written a witty, erudite defense of commonsense enlightened by the wisdom of the ancients and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Channeling Chesterton, he excoriates the fashionable nonsense oppressing the postmodern world. Who wants to turn back the clock? Price answers: Our self-styled "progressives" who know nothing of history, philosophy, natural beauty, or the Incarnation. --Brian Patrick Mitchell, Ph.D.Price inveighs against every intellectually fashionable trend with acuity and wit, delivering devastating blows to the pantheon of social justice and human rights: abortion, sexual promiscuity, transgenderism, atheism, anti-capitalism. These essays are richly rewarding for both the depth of argument and pithiness of his epigrammatic slaying of Leftist shibboleths. -- Paul Tuns is the Editor of The InterimWhether he is engaging victimology, atheism, abortion, sex education, conservatives trying to "turn back the clock," universities, or any one of his many other themes, Dr. Price presents his "heretical" views from the Right trenchantly and in language that I can only envy. It is a dazzling collection of mordant essays on the aberrant Zeitgeist.-- Paul Gottfried, a philosopher, historian and columnist, is editor-in-chief, Chronicles magazine