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 […]
Politics & Society
It is a pleasure to read Nozick’s books and articles. They are packed with thought-provoking arguments and elegantly presented reasoning. At the same time, his intelligence carries a bit of the air of a precocious schoolboy. He is like someone who questions the eighteen-year-old rule regarding voting rights, arguing that those who are eighteen don’t […]
Joel Suss: What is puzzling is the idea that inequality is rising and leading to discontent, but this discontent is being channelled into what you would call the nationalist parties like Trump, Farage, [Marine] Le Pen, et cetera, and not the parties which are typically and historically associated with addressing inequality [through redistribution and the […]
It probably shouldn’t worry us if some pocket of the population saw a decline in IQ as things like education and diet affect IQ and these factors can vary from one group or time to another. But according to this new study it doesn’t appear to be some small segment of the population whose IQ […]
Det kryllar inte av framgångsrika vänsterpolitiker just nu. Ett undantag är socialisten Zohran Mamdani, som står på tröskeln till att bli New Yorks nästa borgmästare den fjärde november. Hans Obama-lika karisma är svår att replikera men det finns andra saker den svenska vänstern kan ta intryck av. Var lyhörd inför väljarna Strax efter att Trump blev vald […]
An essay by the legal scholar Aziz Huq, who teaches at the University of Chicago — the very university where Fraenkel completed his book — recently appeared in the magazine The Atlantic … That is the insidious aspect of the construction of the dual state: it organises the suppression of dissent, yet leaves the great […]
När jag växte upp på 1960-talet var bilden av vår dåvarande statsminister — Tage Erlander — bilden av en hygglig och snäll farbror som berättade roliga historier i Hylands hörna. När man läser hans dagböcker från 40- och 50-talen — vilket jag roat mig med på sistone när jag befunnit mig på min skärgårdsö utanför […]
Beneath the civic ideal of taxation as a collective, equitable endeavour lies an entrenched hypocrisy: the architecture of modern tax codes serves not the public good but the consolidation of private wealth. The progressivity of income tax is hollowed out at the uppermost tiers, where income is largely derived from capital — taxed at preferential […]