It is nearly impossible to find a human society that did not, at least at times, practice slavery and engage in barbarous acts of conquest and colonisation.
The subject of philosophy then is the study of indispensable ideas, regarding inescapable matters, at the root of man’s knowledge and values.
But law and social justice do not always go hand in hand—at least, not in the short term.
Postmodernism has never been as unpopular as it is today, especially on the right of the political spectrum.
The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid.
Several Stanford University campus groups began protesting a free speech initiative that seemed designed to stir up controversy and privilege right-wing voices.
The Gonski panel is the chorus and we are the audience. The play is the ongoing tragedy of Australian education.
Democracies, on average, are becoming more authoritarian.
Clinton’s poor performance with women was not a result of race being especially salient in this cycle.
“Why would humans all around the world invent a rule that’s so difficult to follow, and treat breaking as such an enormous betrayal?”
Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project “Ethics and Empire” was launched.
A colleague of mine in the economics department once said, “when the price of bullshit is zero, demand is inelastic.
The rape culture is much like the poor sanitation conditions which led to typhoid—it provides an environment in which acts of rape are fostered.
Kennedy turned the tables on the conventional wisdom by moving — both by circumstance and by calculation — in a more liberal direction.