Should you never make promises you don’t intend to keep? What philosophers say about the ethics of breaking your word
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In logic, validity is prime. If you want to make valid arguments, or sniff out invalid ones, here’s what you need to do
- by Robert Trueman
Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?
The post Extraterrestrials are People, Too appeared first on Nautilus.
For all the noise they make about it, you’d be forgiven for thinking that free speech was something that the far-right championed unconditionally. But last week, that illusion fell apart, demonstrating that the movement’s definition of free speech comes with terms and conditions. Following his comments about the assassination of the right-wing political activist Charlie […]
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Anti-racist protests that outnumber the racist March for Australia rallies can demoralise them and make the racists less confident to come back.
The post Fighting racism and the far right—how can we beat back March for Australia? first appeared on Solidarity Online.
By Nat Wilson Turner In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I’ve been following the American right especially closely. I want to share two responses that I initially found surprisingly sensible and reassuring, and one response that is appalling in its shamelessness, vile almost beyond belief. And even the second response ultimately left me chilled […]
The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has told the United Nations to forget about climate change that it’s a myth, with his reason being that his office is consistently 70 degrees (Fahrenheit). ”I’ve had the same... Read More ›
This is the first installment in RD’s latest series, “What in the What??,” in which...
The Trump administration asked corporations to identify regulatory “burdens” — now they’re building a hit list of their most hated consumer protection laws.
So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think we’ve made a lot of strides. I wish it was done a long time ago.
Today, we’re delighted to be joined by America’s top medical and public health professionals as we announce historic steps to confront the crisis of autism. Horrible, horrible crisis.
I want to thank the man who brought this issue to the forefront of American politics, along with me. And we actually met in my office, is it like twenty years ago, Bobby? It’s probably twenty years ago in New York. I was a developer, as you probably heard, and I always had very strong feelings about autism and how it happened and where it came from. And he and I—I don’t know, the word got out. And I wouldn’t say that people were very understanding of where we were, but it’s turning out that we understood a lot more than a lot of people who studied it, we think. And I say we think because I don’t think they were really letting the public know what they knew.
Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler just made as much as $75 million off one of the most powerful firms on the New York Stock Exchange.
. The Pólya urn — a deceptively elementary probabilistic construct — offers profound insights into the structural dynamics of many economic processes. The mechanism is straightforward. Following Scott Page’s example, we start with an urn containing one red and one blue ball. Each time a ball is drawn, it is returned to the urn along […]
So, I’ve long had issues with H-1B Visas, and all types of guest-worker visas. Not only do they take jobs from natives, in many cases (but not all), they create a class of workers with limited rights. Bosses don’t just want guest workers because they are cheaper and drive down wages, but because they can […]
The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th September 2025 The BBC I joined on my first day of professional journalism – 40 years ago this week – is unrecognisable today. While, for most […]
“CDC panel recommends multiple shots for measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox instead of a single vaccine… Experts react with concern that increasing the number of vaccinations required will threaten children’s health.” — The Guardian
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At long last, our government is taking a strong anti-coddling stance on vaccines, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. Younger generations of namby-pamby participation-trophy screen addicts need the kind of toughening experience I faced in the good old days of my youth.
To be clear, when I say “the good old days,” I mean “the Nixon era.” When I say “my youth,” I mean “when I weighed less than a golf ball and had a tail.” And when I say “toughening experience,” I mean “first-trimester prenatal rubella.”
It’s important in politics to see the small details as well as the big picture. And so it was that in the fateful few hours that passed between the prime minister’s announcement of his government’s ‘second phase’ and the outbreak of problems with Angela Rayner, someone in the know briefed the government’s favourite papers (the […]
After leaving my phone behind for a week and coming back to it, I saw my social media use in a stark new light
- by Tamur Qutab
As a crime reporter, I wrote about people behind bars. I learned much more when I began writing to them
- by Amelia Arvesen
Authoritarianism flourishes when people fall silent. That’s why the response to Charlie Kirk’s killing made me think of Assad’s Syria.
The post Far-Right Demands for Informants About Charlie Kirk Comments Remind Me of Syria appeared first on The Intercept.
Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised
- by Maryam Aslany
From threats of solar storms to cosmic radiation, new efforts to warn Earthlings are launching
The post New Eyes on Space Weather appeared first on Nautilus.
Those of us on this side of the Atlantic have often heard, and even rallied around, the calls to ‘cancel the rent’. But rarely have we entered into the discursive terrain of abolishing rent altogether. Well, the latter is the nucleus around which Tracy Rosenthal’s and Leo Vilchis’ book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End […]