In Search of Wisdom Podcast
I was Joshua Bertolotti’s guest on this podcast, talking about The Great Guide.
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Author: Julian Baggini
The moralising spy next door
The idea of the home as self-contained and autonomous is as much of a myth as the fantasy of national exceptionalism and self-sufficiency. Much of what we do in our own homes is rightly a concern to other people simply because there is such a thing as society — and homeowners are members of it.
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Is the National Food Strategy DOA?
Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are ideologically ill-equipped to deliver the recommendations of an independent review of the food system
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A new tool to help combat vaccine hesitancy?
Simple thought experiments have the potential to enhance intellectual empathy and help us better understand why otherwise sensible people do not always follow the evidence. Maybe it is not the scientific literacy of others that is the problem, but our own ineptitude in getting inside their thought processes.
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