Morality is to take what is serious seriously. What is serious is that human beings and animals suffer, are humiliated, and are treated badly. To take this seriously means to become engaged, to acquire as sound knowledge as time and circumstance allow, and to try to act so that the world becomes less evil. Harald […]
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107 years ago*, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking a temporary and partial end to the Great War which began in 1914, and has continued, in one form or another, ever since. I once hoped that I would live to see a peaceful world, but that hope has faded away. As several […]
Reports are Donald Trump is considering suing the BBC for $1B over some really bad editing decisions. Could a Doctor Who deal be the answer?
With another COP starting today, and the question of climate change having played no role at all in the Dutch elections recently, and, well, for a zillion different reasons – it seems like a good time to ask the question: what books can help to make people move on this topic? (or if you think […]
Some of the Democrats who voted to end the shutdown without protecting Affordable Care Act subsidies have health insurer money in their pockets.
America’s 47th president and aspirational dictator seems particularly concerned lately with where he’s headed when...
While people in cities across the Global North are unable to access affordable housing, their comrades in the Global South are dispossessed of houses that…
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This latest attack will leave an already weakened BBC in a perilous fight for its future, argues journalist and presenter Matthew Gwyther
An elaborate ARG has revealed two deleted scenes from Doctor Who Season 2, prompting fans to argue whether they would have made it better.
These two charts tell a story. First, the top .1%. Next, the top 1%. This chart is only to 2023. Now what you’ll notice is that the top .1% holds about half the wealth of the top 1%. It’s like this all thru the economy. Everything is flowing to the top, because that’s how the […]
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If you’ve ever been at a Dutch PhD ceremony, you’ve come across the toga – which is, unfortunately not a Greek or Roman toga as pictured here. Instead, it’s a kind of black gown, made from heavy cloth, with velvet facings, accompanied by a white collar and a velvet hat that resembles the mortarboards that […]
In science — and economics — one could argue that there are basically three kinds of reasoning available: (1) Deduction Premise 1: All Chicago economists believe in the Rational Expectations Hypothesis (REH). Premise 2: Robert Lucas is a Chicago economist. Conclusion: Robert Lucas believes in REH. Here we have an example of a logically valid deductive […]
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
Should deaf parents be able to select for a deaf child? On the ethics of parental choice and ‘designer babies’
- by Aeon Video
Renaissance artists paid uncommon attention to Jesus’ nether regions. What does this breach in modesty reveal about art?
- by Sam Dresser
Some people watch history pass by. Others high in ‘historical consciousness’ truly live it – and seem to benefit as a result
- by Şebnem Ture
One woman's husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.
The post Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention appeared first on The Intercept.
Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern? Or is that taking things too far?
- by Jeff Sebo & Andreas L Mogensen
The right to protest, the right to free speech, and the right to be heard are absolutely essential in any democratic society. That’s why these rights are clearly enshrined in both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. The history of Britain is itself one of protest, protests that […]
In 1979, the cultural theorist Stuart Hall wrote with reference to Britain’s impending shift to the Right that political restructuring doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Rather, he argued, ‘[I]t works on the ground of already constituted social practices and lived ideologies … it wins space by constantly drawing on these elements which have secured over time […]
By late summer 2025, it had all become too much for Bono. Something had changed. On 10 August — the morning that Israeli air strikes killed five Al Jazeera journalists and one freelance colleague in Gaza while extreme food deprivation was becoming widespread — the official U2 website was updated with four separate statements. Each […]