Permission to be queer: the case for liberty

允许出柜:自由之辩

LSE: Public lectures and events

2025-10-14

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Contributor(s): Professor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey | Join us in welcoming back to LSE, economist Deirdre Nansen McCloskey who will deliver this special lecture. Fear of the queer, says McCloskey, undermines our liberty every time, from the persecution of heretics and witches down to the demonization of Catholics, gays, immigrants, and trans people. The ideal of a liberal society has been 'Do anything you want, but don't spook the horses'. Don't damage people physically but otherwise feel free. It's a noble and uniquely modern ideal. No masters. As Richard Rumbolt declared from his scaffold at Edinburgh in 1685, ‘there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him'. Such an equality of permission is threatened worldwide-and now even in the first home of our liberties.
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  • I'm going to be chairing this talk and I'm a professor in the economics department and the head of the department and I should say this is part of our inclusion week,

  • something we've been doing in the last three years where we spend a week having public events and then we have a workshop on Thursday in which we invite economists and thinkers more in general.

  • to talk about things that are a bit different than kind of the usual run-of-the-mill economics box we have and what a pleasure it is today to have Eidran,

  • Dancin McCloskey, to talk to us.

  • She is a senior fellow and holds the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Canto Institute in Washington,

  • D.C. and from 2015 the University of Illinois In Chicago,

  • she has been a distinguished professor at Maratha of both economics and history and also of English and communication.

  • And Idra is going to talk to us today about permission to be queer, the case for liberty.

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