Alex Pilkington

Alumnus

Students For Liberty

Alex Pilkington was a Students For Liberty coordinator between 2017 and 2020 while at Florida Gulf Coast University. Alex is in the process of deciding on postgraduate programs and he has a passion for researching the causes and effects of political polarization. You can find him on Twitter (@alex_pilkington). Email: [email protected]

Blog Posts

Is social media a modern-day Tower of Babel?

January 6, 2023

Free Speech

In 2015, Dillon D. Oaks, now an Associate Professor of English Linguistics at BYU, published an article in the Journal of Science, Religion & Culture titled “The Tower of Babel: A Linguistic Consideration.” In his article, Professor Oaks argues that rather than a forced scattering of languages that led to the separation of people, it was the separation of people that led to the scattering of language. The biblical story of the Tower of Babel, in the Book of Genesis, tells of a world in which humans are united by one shared language, something that presents endless

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