Saturday, 15 November 2025

Incentivising War Crimes: The High Cost of International Humanitarianism

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Wars have never been the concern only of their combatants. Other states pay close attention to the geo-political implications and opportunit...
Thursday, 9 October 2025

If Climate Change Is As Bad As Activists Say, Their Demand Should Be 'Geoengineering Now'!

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Some climate activists claim to believe that climate change is an existential threat to humanity, if not the entire biosphere. This is the j...
Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Israel’s Crimes Get Too Much Attention

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A great many people around the world believe that Israel’s government and military have committed and continue to commit crimes against huma...
Monday, 4 August 2025

Inheritance Tax Is Largely Irrelevant to the Problem of Economic Inequality

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Source Lots of people think that a few people controlling a very large share of a society's economic power is a bad thing. It is unfair ...
Tuesday, 8 July 2025

UPDATE: Now also on Substack

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Google seems to have lost interest in the Blogger app and it is showing its age.  I am trying out Substack, and if it works out will be migr...
Monday, 7 July 2025

Indigenous Knowledge Is Epistemically Inferior To Science

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The view that ‘indigenous knowledge’ counts as knowledge in a sense comparable to real (i.e. scientific) knowledge is absurd but widely held...
Sunday, 8 June 2025

Tiny Countries Should Not Exist

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There is no good reason for tiny countries to exist, and we should stop making more of them. The World Bank classifies 40 countries as '...