Giving the Devil His Due

The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. What he is due is the right to speak his mind. If he can be censored, why shouldn't you be censored? All ideas should be up for debate because if we put barriers up to silence unpleasant ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any other ideas. If we censor the Devil, we are opening ourselves up to attack. This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer. The new collection of essays and articles takes the Devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the Devil his due.