I am going to write about the so-called problem of ‘free will’. I say ‘so-called’ because it is my contention that this problem does not exist. Asking the question “Do we really have free will?” is itself the result of conceptual confusion. …

With the horrific discoveries in recent months of mass unmarked graves on the sight of former residential schools, much will certainly be written this Canada Day on what must be done going forward regarding reconciliation with Canada’s indigenous peoples. This is, of course, of paramount importance. The primary sympathy in…

Much intellectual, emotional, and social resources in the modern world have been put towards fighting various culture war battles in recent years. I think this has been mostly a waste of time. I believe we should spend more energy focusing on the actual policy challenges faced by our societies. Defenders…

We tend to think of nationalism as a phenomenon of the political right. In recent years the rise of Donald Trump in the United States and Brexit in the UK have generally been supported by the right in those countries and opposed by the left. …

When I say that conservatism is fading away, I must first make clear what it is I mean. The conservative temperament is as old as civilization itself and will always be with us. So long as there is political and social change there will inevitably be some people who are…

I was truly looking forward to Steven Pinkers new book. I enjoyed his previous work on the decline of violence. This new book was marketed as a full-throated defence of Enlightenment values against its critics on the left and right. I expected to disagree with many of Pinkers conclusions, but…

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I am, and always have been, a little bit weird. This being the case, I’ve always had a certain empathy with those who, like me, don’t really fit in. This manifests itself in certain ways, but the way it manifests itself that is relevant to the argument I am about…

One week ago, was the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door his church in Whittenberg, sparking the Protestant Reformation. What was perhaps the most interesting about that anniversary is that we did not really know what to make of it. Sure, high brow journals…