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Big donors need to balance their ambitions to address injustices with the constraints on power that democracy requires.

Big donors need to balance their ambitions to address injustices with the constraints on power that democracy requires.

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Does the truth set us free? – Ulrika Carlsson, PhD in Philosophy at Yale University and writer for Axess Magazine in Stockholm, Sweden Why social liberals are not moral relativists – Thomas Hurka, University Professor and Jackman Chair in Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto   How to prevent AI from taking over the world – Ruth Chang, Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at University College, Oxford Why Donald Trump ...

Some animals are more equal than others Vox.com 1 day ago How can you love some animals but eat others? It’s a question posed frequently by vegan activists, often accompanied by a picture of a cute dog or cat juxtaposed with an equally adorable pig or cow. Yet, as compelling as the argument may be to activists, the meat-heavy diet of most Americans reveals that the public remains untroubled by the question. Or, as one popular meme argues in response, “Because one is a friend and one is ba...

Why Is Liberalism a Bad Word for the Right? If liberalism has become a bad word for the Religious Right, there must be some virtues in the concept and practices of the ideology. Illustration: The Wire Society14/Jan/2021 I have been attracted to critical theory all my life, and never dreamt that I would be compelled to defend liberalism, as I intend to do in this piece. Oddly, a philosophy that has been dismissed by the radical Left as tame and status-quoist, has become a term of abuse in the ha...