Normal life is suspended. Hallelujah.
Walking in the snow, I was savouring the way in which normal life had been joyously suspended.
ReadTag: Ethics
What philosophy can teach us about tackling abuse
Inadequate processes are not the source of the problem, although they are part of it. The word that has been used most frequently to describe the source of Oxfam’s malaise is its “culture”, the corporate equivalent of “character”.
ReadThe power of second thoughts
How habits of thinking can challenge unthinking habits.
ReadThe ungrateful traveller
Last week I went to Bangkok. Returning home, the question on my mind was how did such an astonishing statement become so mundane?
ReadNever Had It So Good
By the time you read this, something truly dreadful might have blighted the world. Pinker does not prophesy that this won’t happen; he simply reminds us why it should not and need not, as long as we don’t give up the notion of the emancipatory power of reason to help illuminate the way forward. If that is naive, even more naive is the belief that despair, fatalism or superstition supplies a credible alternative.
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