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Book Review: Philosopher AC Grayling explores the latest knowledge in science, history and the mind.

More recently, the Māori Party and others have advocated a racially based constitution, restoring tribal rangitiratanga, or sovereignty, over Parliament as set out in the Treaty of Waitangi. This is complemented by moves to give equal or superior status to indigenous social and cultural concepts in areas dominated by the Western democratic tradition.  Noted academic Palmer’s international reputation has been tapped by one of the UK’s leading historians of philosophy and political theory. Professor AC (Anthony Clifford) Grayling, born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), taught at Oxford ...

Wall Street Journal’s… …opinion pages? That’s right — and the CDC’s own data back up the claims. This one hasn’t made the big headlines, but it’s the biggest story of the year: Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted? In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only fr...

Has Liberalism Failed Us: Professor AC Grayling at The Cambridge Union Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Liberalism is not an objective truth, asserts Professor AC Grayling, philosopher, author and Master of New College of the Humanities. ‘It’s about what we can share in the way of a common patch of ground where we can all meet and discuss the very fundamental questions that matter most to our society.’ It is difficult to find fault with this. It is difficult, I later find, to challenge much of what Professor Grayling has to say – despite my best efforts. I begin by asking how Grayling ...

Slovenia Times 2. February, 2021 Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has expanded his initiative for cooperation among political parties with a call for a meeting of leaders of all parliamentary parties. He would like to measure support for his proposal that parties reach a consensus on focusing on the fight against the epidemic, on post-pandemic recovery and Slovenia’s EU presidency. In the invitation for the meeting, Pahor noted that Slovenia would mark this year the 30th anniversary of declaration of its independence and its defence, as well as of its international recognitio...