About this episode

Erez Levin discusses the importance of social norms in maintaining the health of modern democratic societies.

This episode hosts Erez Levin to examine the shifting boundaries of acceptable public speech and what this reveals about the health of modern democratic societies. The conversation explores his central argument that liberal democracies depend not only on formal legal frameworks, but also on informal social guardrails, shared moral taboos that limit the public acceptability of overt hateful bigotry and dehumanising rhetoric. As these guardrails weaken in fragmented and algorithmically driven i...

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Host: Dominic Bowen

Guest: Erez Levin

Topics covered

• social norms
• political violence
• democracy
• public speech
• moral taboos

Keywords

• social norms
• political violence
• democracy
• public speech
• moral taboos
• bigotry
• rhetoric

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