- Corporations are better at globalisation than national governments
- Political incentives are less well aligned with the public interest than those for corporations
Monday, 18 April 2022
Why Governments Failed the Challenge of Covid and Capitalism Succeeded
Monday, 22 November 2021
Moral Status Should Not Depend On Social Status
“The poorest he that is in England has a life to live as the greatest he” (Thomas Rainsborough, spokesman for the Levellers at the Putnam Debates)
Thursday, 19 August 2021
If our governments won’t help refugees, they should let us sponsor them ourselves
Guest post by Brecht
Weerheijm
As of 2020, over 80 million people are on the run from war and persecution. Of this group, over 26 million are refugees looking for a safe haven outside of their home country. Most of these are from countries torn by civil war or governed by authoritarians, to whom human lives seem not to matter. The burden of caring for these million falls squarely upon the shoulders of developing nations; 86% of all refugees are hosted by developing countries, with the UN’s 46 least-developed countries taking in more than a quarter of all refugees. Millions are living in inhumane conditions in refugee camps across the globe, in nations that lack resources to take proper care of these refugees. Even if there are means to stay alive in these camps, there is often no access to public services or a path to citizenship. Refugees are neither politically represented nor provided with education, and this status is often inherited by their children and grandchildren.
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The Moral Case for Guest Worker Programmes
Friday, 26 March 2021
Why Are Moral Philosophers So Bad At Global Justice?
Monday, 2 November 2020
The Political Economy Of Risk: Covid Edition
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
The Statues Were Always A Grab For Power: It Is Good That They Are Coming Down
Thursday, 8 August 2019
Saturday, 22 June 2019
The Duty To Forgive Murderers
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Source: INC |
Monday, 26 November 2018
Peer Reviewers Should Be Paid
Monday, 22 January 2018
Productivity is the Wrong Argument for Diversity
Thursday, 18 January 2018
Crime Hurts. Justice Should Heal
Saturday, 30 September 2017
Almost No Disasters Are Natural
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Liberalism Insists on the Freedom to Insult Religion
Thursday, 24 March 2016
What Terrorists Want - and How to Stop Them Getting It
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Terrorism is not a personality type, a psychological illness, a theology, or a goal in itself. Terrorism is a technique, a particular form of warfare that the weak wage against the strong.
If we want to stop terrorism we have to first understand it. That means acknowledging its rationality as a means to an end. The question we should be asking is, what are terrorist acts supposed to achieve and how?