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- A Team Approach to Intergenerational JusticeWe have difficulty living up to our obligations to future generations. To be precise, our problem is not not that we don’t care about what happens to the world after we're gone. It is that we can’t explain why we should care, and therefore cannot...
- Too Much Competition is Ruining SportCompetition is amazing! It is the disruptive engine at the heart of the three key institutional innovations of modernity: market economies, democracy, and science. But despite its glamorous power, competition is not enough. Indeed it can be dangerous...
- Liberalism Insists on the Freedom to Insult ReligionShould insulting religion be banned? The reason the idea is still debated in the 21st century is that it has been reframed as a debate within liberalism rather than against it. The arguments set forward by groups such as the Organisation of Islamic...
- Why Not Polygamy Too?Source The argument that made gay marriage law in America was about marriage equality: not special rights for gay people but the right to the same treatment. There may be something to regret in the smallness of this ambition (previously), but the...
- Is Parenthood Morally Respectable?Becoming a parent is a private choice, but it has public costs. Society is presented with extensive and expensive obligations to ensure your children a decent quality of life and their development into successful adults and citizens, and that means m...
- What Terrorists Want - and How to Stop Them Getting ItSource In order to talk sensibly about terrorism we have to acknowledge its rationality. Set aside the armchair psychologising and Muslim blaming that goes on after every atrocity or ISIS video. That low grade psychobabble turns tragic events into...
- The Concept of White Privilege Does More Harm Than Good'White privilege' and its cousins have achieved enormous prominence on the American left, from which it now seems to be spreading around the Western world. Rhetorically - as a slogan - it has an undeniable power. But from a moral perspective it is fl...
- Time to End 'White Privilege''White privilege' and its cousins have achieved enormous prominence on the American left, from which it now seems to be spreading around the Western world. Rhetorically - as a slogan - it has an undeniable power. But from a moral perspective it is fl...
- Saving The Planet: Why Cap-and-Trade Is Not Fit For PurposeGuest post by Tadhg Ó Laoghaire "It's not easy being green" -Kermit the Frog A consensus...
- The Brain Gain: Why Smart People Should be Encouraged to Leave Developing CountriesGuest post by Denise Coenegracht Skilled workers emigrating from developing countries are good for us, but bad for the developing countries At least, according to the received wisdom. When considering the facts, a different picture emerges. One w...
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