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In recent years successive governments have sought to close down free speech. If we are to avoid the enslavement of our ...
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends,” Mill warned, “than that good men should look on and do nothing.” Niemöller ...
Dexter Morgan moves to New York City to find the son who shot him, and question our mainstream obsession with serial killers ...
Among President Donald Trump’s lizard-brain intuitions is that Americans are overwhelmed by choice. This exhaustion is a strangely underexplored reason for his appeal; it may even help explain why his ...
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Europe Needs Creative Solutions to Tackle Its Growing Wealth Gap
Fueled by rentier capitalism, the EU is facing a rapidly growing wealth divide. Familiar remedies are unlikely to solve the problem. The post Europe Needs Creative Solutions to Tackle Its Growing ...
A mericans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th ...
Today's guest is University of Pennsylvania historian Sophia Rosenfeld, the author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life. Her book explores why we've come to basically equate ...
“Two weeks of wall-to-wall coverage of the sport for people who hate sport,” writes Stephen Pollard. “The most boring game, the most boring athletes, the most boring audience, the most boring ...
Public Schools Turn Learning Into 'a Mere Battlefield for Sects and Parties' Importantly, the philosopher John Stuart Mill, who believed parents should be required to educate their children, ...
It was in that year that John Stuart Mill wrote his essay "On Liberty." It is a statement of principles so fundamental and so comprehensive that it takes rank with Rousseau's "Social Contract," Marx's ...
"Peter will never be forgotten. Every time you mention his name, everyone knows who he is." John Keddy, 76, moved to New Mill ...