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The British people voted to reject an institution that curtails the will of people, that serves crony business interests before democracy, and that promotes nepotism.
Allowing one group to use freighted words like homophobe or racist or rapist to tarnish an individual’s reputation without proof violates a principle of fairness that some of us hold dear.
The biggest threat to human civilisation is not from some random weirdos blowing themselves up. The biggest threat is neither solely cultural or economic, but a hybrid of the two.
With the ongoing migrant crisis emanating from the Muslim world and as an asylum seeker himself.
The first thing to note in this context is that PTSD is extremely rare, even among trauma victims.
The world is theirs for the taking — only a significant proportion are, it seems, too anxious, depressed and traumatised to take advantage.
Shriver took aim at the devotees of identity politics, who occupy and conquer today’s university campuses.
Through it he tells the story of hillbillies, impoverished immigrants who came from Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth century to settle in the American south.
Ratings and written consumer reviews are important. In markets, they alleviate information asymmetry.
The goal of public health is ostensibly primary prevention: this means a focus on anticipating, (rather than treating), disease, disorder, and injury.
MacAskill seeks to convince that not only are we in the developed world in a position to do a tremendous amount of good, but that our approach to doing good is itself tremendously important.
The entire idea of democracy is predicated on two essential assumptions, that humans will value knowledge, and humans will decide on the basis of rationality.
Perhaps our belief that the intellectual is synonymous with the political is less an eternal fact of human existence than a symptom of our own hyper-politicized times.
Oppression does indeed exist. But, oppression is complicated, far more complicated than can be distilled in an undergraduate academic setting.
It might just be that casual prejudice has become so commonplace that many of us don’t even notice it anymore.