On Singer’s ‘The Freedom to Ridicule Religion-and Deny the Holocaust’

Peter Singer – recently listed by The Bulletin as one of the hundred most influential Australians, alongside philosophical spectre John Anderson – has argued that Austria’s laws criminalising Holocaust denial are a contravention of free speech which demonstrate the hypocrisy inherent in Europe’s attitude towards free speech.

Why does reading Singer so often result in a sense of ‘if only things were so simple’?