I see that my Skeptic Ink Network colleague Notung is beginning a new series on freedom of speech. This is an important topic, so I look forward to seeing what he comes...
Read MoreHere in Australia there are anti-discrimination laws that protect breastfeeding mothers from refusal of service and the like, and these are laws that I am perfectly...
Read MoreFollowing on from my previous post, I want to make sure that my serious reservations about the removal of Julie Burchill’s nasty-minded Comment-is-Free piece do...
Read MoreAlas, I’m not going to give a nice, neat, incontrovertible answer to the question in the heading. However, variations of this question keep coming up in the...
Read MoreIn the past, Peter Singer has expressed opposition to anti-aging technology (perhaps a pill that slows down aging by half) on utilitarian grounds. He has argued that a...
Read MoreI’ve been re-reading George Sher’s interesting little book, In Praise of Blame (Oxford University Press, 2005). As the title suggests, this is, in fact, a...
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