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Philosophy Café: ‘Should democracy tolerate those who wish to destroy it?’

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 17 January, 2019Culture

In what feels like a time of increasing social and political uncertainty, I have found myself employing a few strategies to keep my mind from imploding. They include thinking about the ‘big’ questions, as they tend to withstand the relentless plot twists of the theatre of current affairs, paying more attention to the questions posed, […]

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