the new inquisition

A rational, argued counter-attack against the waterline of political correctness

Today, witches are no longer burned at the stake, nor is anyone subjected to an inquisitorial process. But there is no doubt that a new puritanism, whose origin this time lies in the intellectual left, fully affects the West and causes considerable damage.

We live in the era of so-called "political correctness," which could be defined as a cultural practice whose goal is the destruction of personal reputation, censorship, and even penal sanctions against those people or institutions who do not adhere to, challenge, or ignore a certain identitarian ideology. An ideology that promotes the liberation of groups considered victims of the oppressive Western order, which has its own standards of moral purity and establishes a clear distinction between good and evil.

Its apostles, as happened with the old witch hunts, are willing to follow the accusing finger wherever it points to destroy the devil and free society from his evil influence. Like the courts of old, whoever declares themselves against its tenets is identified with evil, exposing themselves to the mobs and popular tribunals of the media and social networks.

With this brave book, which is a celebration of freedom and heresy, the Chilean intellectual Axel Kaiser addresses one of the main topics of our time: the use of emotions and offense to avoid a frank, democratic, and free debate and to create a new tribalism incompatible with the individual freedom that emerged in the West.