Knowing Your Boundaries: A Key to Understanding Our Global Crises Glenn McLaren Government, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture, Sociology Is there one thing that is common to all of our major global crises; crises as diverse as sexual harassment and assault, mass immigration and globalization, technologies advancing beyond our control and global...
An Immigrant’s Letter to Western Philosophy Bharath Vallabha Academia, Philosophy, Politics Dear Western Philosophy, It’s been a while since I wrote to you. Last time we talked I said some pretty harsh things to you. I said you were racist because you looked down on your cousins – Asian...
Jordan Peterson, Destroyed Glenn McLaren Education, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Uncategorized Early in 2018 I was searching YouTube for Stephen Colbert’s latest monologue on the Trump administration and I discovered a lecture on problems with postmodernism and neo-Marxism in universities. Having...
Science Owes Us An Apology Glenn McLaren Philosophy, Science & Medicine Recently Australia celebrated Science Week when all around the nation people celebrated the discipline's wondrous achievements. As usual, there was a particular focus on science in schools with the theme this...
How Malleable is an “Ethic”? A Dose of Systems Thinking Reality Michele Battle-Fisher Philosophy, Science & Medicine Before I begin, what do I mean by “ethic”? Ethics are, in the end, a study of moral justification of our actions (or inaction). Most simply put, ethics are a set of moral judgments that can influence and...
In Defense of Kink John Altmann Arts & Culture, Philosophy Content Warning: The following article discusses rape, sexual abuse, murder, and other graphic topics. Last month, headlines broke out that a man by the name of Brendt Christensen kidnapped and potentially...
The Perverse Art of Destroying Meaning Glenn McLaren Philosophy, Politics & Economics In an article in The Conversation from early 2016 titled, "Why Was Stephen Fry Fried On Twitter?" Australian philosopher, Clive Hamilton, criticizes the unreflective political correctness culture of digital...