This is the most censorious time of my life. Considering how old I am, that’s saying something – but not anything that will surprise...

Across cultures and times, areas of higher population density have been associated with more culturally progressive attitudes. Consider...

An unvaccinated person who doesn't have COVID puts others at risk exactly as much as a vaccinated one - NO RISK AT ALL. My having a...

Love Doesn't Wait On Understanding Love doesn’t have to understand its object fully. Indeed, it never can. As for love, so for empathy...

Quietly in the background of my life over the last year and a half or so, I've been working with volunteers to whom I am profoundly...

In one of my professional roles, Academic Dean of an educational institute, I have the great privilege of interviewing young applicants...

History churns up many times like these – times when a deep and persistent injustice is widely perceived and met by a singular focus and...

Like the crack in the Liberty Bell, a symbol of America’s founding idea, a crack in American society remains as a symbol of its founding sin

It took me a couple of seconds to get Stephen Colbert’s joke line, “I don’t see race” when I first heard it. In the USA, the joke works...

Philosophy Talks. History Walks. As a political activist and someone who trains others in “the art of political persuasion”, I teach a...

Since the #MeToo phenomenon hit, I have started asking my female friends directly about their everyday experiences with men. For example,...

Last month, I did something I’d done only once before: I went to a range and shot some guns. Lots of guns. All shapes, ages and sizes....