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• A Team Approach to Intergenerational Justice
  on Nov 23, 2016 in climate change ethics intergenerational justice international relations politics
  We 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 Sport
  on Aug 5, 2016 in ethics media sport
  Competition 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 Religion
  on Aug 3, 2016 in democracy ethics justice liberalism politics religion society
  Should 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?
  on Jul 25, 2016 in America ethics human rights law marriage society
  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?
  on Jun 28, 2016 in ethics rights society
  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 It
  on Mar 24, 2016 in international relations justice media politics society terrorism war
  Source 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
  on Mar 23, 2016 in justice politics racism United States
  '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'
  on Mar 17, 2016 in justice politics racism United States
  '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 Purpose
  on Feb 4, 2016 in business climate change economics politics
  Guest 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 Countries
  on Jan 4, 2016 in development economics ethics guest post international relations migration
  Guest 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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