Freedom and Flourishing

  Many people reading this are likely to view the use of stakeholder terminology by business leaders as little more than a public relations ...

  This question is posed in the title of Chapter 10 of Steven Pinker’s book , Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters. ...

The accompanying photo depicts the views of a couple of protesters who were opposed to Australian involvement in the United States led invas...

 After I stumbled across that quote a few days ago, it struck me that Erasmus might have something relevant to say to people living today. ...

  When I began to think about David Friedrich’s painting “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”, there seemed to be something odd about it. The pai...

  I expect that many readers of this blog will have spent some time this year thinking about the response of governments to the COVID-19 pan...

  There are good reasons why public policy discussions often revolve around the benefits and costs of alternative policies. Discussions that...

  The charts shown above suggest that some of the assessments that political partisans make of the views of their opponents are wildly inacc...

  Development of public policy depends to a large extent on sensible public discussion to filter out stupid proposals.   Climate change is n...