In the summer of 2020, the Afghan military received an unusual report. Transmitted by their US allies, it warned of a possible Taliban attack in Jalalabad, a city in the fertile country’s southeastern plain. Suggesting the assault would come between …
What’s wrong with cannibalism?
“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti,” whispers Hannibal Lecter, before making that scary teeth-sucking noise. But what makes Lecter our favourite moral monster is not that he eats people; it’s that he gruesomely murders …
Global Health and the Art of Really Big Lies
by Dr David Bell. Also published in Propaganda in Focus
Prologue: The art of Really Big LiesIn a former role I had a boss who lied a lot. The lies were pure fantasy, but massive in scope and delivered …
Global Health and the Art of Really Big Lies
by Dr David Bell. Also published in Propaganda in Focus
Prologue: The art of Really Big LiesIn a former role I had a boss who lied a lot. The lies were pure fantasy, but massive in scope and delivered …
Effective altruism is the new woke
Around 2014, I started to notice that something was up in academic philosophy. Geeky researchers from fancy universities, having first made their names in abstract and technical domains such as metaphysics, were now recreating themselves as public-facing ethicists. Knowing some …
Was the sexual revolution a mistake?
One of the many clashes within the modern feminist movement is between sex-positive feminists and sex-negative feminists, otherwise known as the prudes. The former argue for the virtues of no-holds-barred sexual freedom, while the latter believe that liberal feminism’s focus …
How Covid stole our privacy
As soon as I turn on my phone, it becomes a node in a network, giving me access to the entire world. But it also gives Apple access to information about me and my behaviour; I become another source in …
Movers Shakers and Social Changers: Vaccine mandates, the inch we must not yield – with Abir Ballan
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