Monday, 29 June 2015

Marriage Equality Is Not Enough

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The campaign to legalise gay marriage in Western countries has been wildly successful. Political and popular opposition has crumbled in t...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Will We Be Able To Justify The International Birthright Lottery To Our Grandchildren?

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It is drowning season again in the Mediterranean. Over the coming months, thousands of people will die wretched little deaths in pursui...
Tuesday, 17 March 2015

The Asshole Theory of International Relations: Why some countries are so ghastly and what to do about them

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Some countries are assholes. They trample on international norms about human rights, weapons trafficking, maritime borders; sabotage negoti...
Saturday, 28 February 2015

Children are special, but not particularly important

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A strange idea has taken over the social conscience so entirely that it is a taboo even to say what it is. Children have come to be seen ...
Saturday, 31 January 2015

Bullshit vs Truthiness

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In 2005 Harry Frankfurt re-published a wonderful philosophical essay, ' On Bullshit ', which became a bestseller. Also in 2005 Steph...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Je ne suis pas Charlie Hebdo: Assholes can't be Heroes

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Source Articles in defence of free speech are pouring out of all the usual places. They are  eminently unnecessary . We don't need ...
Thursday, 25 December 2014

The Rights and Wrongs of Libertarian Paternalism

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‘Libertarian paternalism' is Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's big idea for improving individual choice-making while respecting our...