What to do with historical bastardry in our heroes? This is republished from my substack. Henceforth such posts – the equivalent of a magazine article…
Published 23 Nov 2022
Feet of clay problem
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Category: Politics
Published 6 Dec 2019
Environmentalism timetable
I prepared this for my students and thought others might like it. It’s a timetable of environmental law, politics, publications of note, events and disasters…
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Published 7 Apr 2019
The Economy Does Not Exist – thoughts prior to the Australian federal election 2019
In coming days and weeks we are again going to be bombarded with the usual clichés about the economy. This or that will be good…
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Published 6 Oct 2018
Good faith, bad faith and no faith in reasoning
We are hearing a lot of calls for there to be public debates with climate deniers, the alt-right (that is, modern fascists), creationists and antivaxxers, and this has led to people marking the so-called “paradox of tolerance” named by Karl Popper in his epochal 1945 Open Society and its Enemies:
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Published 15 Aug 2018
The wealthy are often sociopathic. Why?
I have been encountering, in these days of political “incorrectness” (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless people (literally) to failing to give way when you drive a Korean car and they a European one (or some varieties of Japanese).
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Published 18 Jan 2018
Religious exceptionalism is undemocratic
This is my submission to the government’s “review”. As usual, I get contrarian. Below the fold…
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Published 20 Aug 2017
Equality is about protection, not love
Again and again I see the same-sex marriage (SSM) debate cast in terms of love. And while I agree that people should be free to…
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Published 14 Aug 2017
Phobosophy
As everyone knows, philosophy comes from the two Greek words philo and sophos, and means, roughly, the love of wisdom, although as everyone also knows,…
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Published 13 Jun 2017
Look over here – “terrorism”
The notion of terrorism is not well-defined.There are over 150 legal definitions in the US and more in international law. Here is the UN’s definition:…
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Published 9 Apr 2017
The Abstract and the Concrete, or, the Road to Fascism
I was thinking about the way in which the anti-abortionists justify their views. I have always said that “Pro-Life” is a misnomer. Instead of being…
