Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars

Description

Title: Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2025
Format: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780861549962

Discriminations by A. C. Grayling is a timely philosophy and current affairs book about culture wars, public debate, cancellation, and the conditions needed for civil intellectual life. Grayling examines why disagreement has become so combustible and why public conversation so often turns into outrage, punishment, and fear.

The book looks at cancellation and social exclusion through a long historical lens, from ancient ostracism to witch trials, political hearings, online pile-ons, doxing, and modern disputes over speech and identity. Grayling argues for nuance, discrimination in the older sense of careful judgement, and a more constructive way to handle moral and political disagreement.

This paperback is a strong choice for readers interested in philosophy, free speech, ethics, politics, media culture, censorship, discrimination, social justice, and democratic debate. It offers a measured approach to one of the most heated questions in contemporary public life.