The miserable results of our quest for happiness
“Our pursuit of happiness is leading us to judge the great intellectual and spiritual traditions of the past according to[…]
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Our ‘ethical’ shopping habit
“It’s easy to poke fun at the obviously useless, because not even people who buy such things believe they’re really[…]
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“Over the last decade, it has become common to complain that governments, particularly in the west, have been too narrowly[…]
ReadNewsnight – BBC One
I popped up as a talking head on yesterday’s programme talking about something which is very deep: snow. I think[…]
ReadJanuary podcast
This special edition comes from Puebla, Mexico, at the Ciudad de las Ideas (City of Ideas) festival. The guests are Randy Cohen, writer of The New York Times’s The Ethicist column; Bad Thoughts author Jamie Whyte; and “new atheist” Sam Harris.
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