Freedom and Flourishing

  In my discussion of Steven Pinker’s book, Rationality, I referred to his observation that people tend to have a reality mindset in the wo...

  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. ...

  “Politics of Being” is title of a recently published book by Thomas Legrand. The subtitle is “Wisdom and science for a new development pa...

  A couple of weeks ago the thought struck me that it was about time I wrote something about the personal ethics of voting. That turned out ...

  If someone had mentioned “scout mindset” to me a week ago, I would probably have thought they were referring to mottos of the scouting mov...

                                                    Vietnamese boat people arriving in Australia in 1976 In the Western liberal democracie...

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

  Over the last few decades, Australian politics seems to have become more like that of the United States. Politics in this country was once...

  It is appropriate to be thinking seriously about the question posed above during the COVID-19 pandemic. The extent to which it is approp...