Dan Fincke has published a useful post about civility, inviting us all to take a detailed pledge. In turn, I invite you to have a look at it and consider whether...
Read MoreI’ve signed this petition requesting that Thailand ban its ivory trade, which provides an avenue for the sale of smuggled ivory from African elephants killed by...
Read MoreJason Streitfeld has taken the trouble to write a post setting out his reasons for disagreeing with this earlier one of mine, so I thank him for that (and for the...
Read MoreI’ve been involved in a discussion on Twitter about the Ukrainian protest group, FEMEN. The paradox that my interlocutors seem to be asserting is that there is...
Read MoreThose of you who’ve been interacting with me for some time will know that I’ve written some of the most searching critiques of Sam Harris available on the...
Read MoreTim Mathieson, the partner, boyfriend, bloke – or whatever the appropriate term may be – of Australia’s prime minister, Julia Gillard, got into...
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