{"id":14356,"date":"2026-08-12T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14356"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:03:15","slug":"the-european-free-speech-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/the-european-free-speech-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Free Speech Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearbooks.com\/articles\/2026\/08\/11\/the_european_free_speech_crisis_1199481.html\">this depressing article<\/a>, it occurred to me that the U.K. and the Continent, in their assault on free speech, might be half-wittingly acquiescing in Islamification and entry into dhimmitude.\u00a0 Why? Because of an excess of empathy unto cultural suicide?\u00a0 Maybe civilizations, like individuals,\u00a0 can get old and tired and just give up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading this depressing article, it occurred to me that the U.K. and the Continent, in their assault on free speech, might be half-wittingly acquiescing in Islamification and entry into dhimmitude.\u00a0 Why? Because of an excess of empathy unto cultural suicide?\u00a0 Maybe civilizations, like individuals,\u00a0 can get old and tired and just give up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,180,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-matters","category-decline-of-the-west","category-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14357,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions\/14357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}