From houses to wages, size isn’t everything
Our desire to always go one better is natural but that doesn’t mean we should let it consume us with envy.
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Tag: Ethics
A tax on red meat?
That won’t save the planet – or do much to improve our health. The problems associated with the production of red meat are far too complicated for a simplistic sin levy.
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The influential wrongness of AJ Ayer
Ayer’s work tells us important things about the shortcomings of Anglophone philosophy. Blog for Prospect.
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Morality of the tribe
Video of a debate I chaired at the How the Light Gets In festival with Natalie Cargill, David Miller and Peter Tatchell.
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A timely biography of Kierkegaard
Just as Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings were meant to enable the reader to understand different modes of existence from the inside, Carlisle’s biography takes us inside Kierkegaard’s troubled, complicated life, portraying a man who both compels and repels in turn.
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