The Minefield
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Episodes: 239
Jul 18, 2020
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In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.
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After the stabbings in Sydney — Grief? Anger? Revenge?
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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What’s fueling the tension between the courts and the media?
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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What would the moral obligation to avoid civilian deaths look like in Gaza?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Ramadan — the rediscovery of society
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Ramadan — the importance of friendship
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Ramadan — the discipline of solitude
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Ramadan — the necessity of withdrawing
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Q+A on “the wisdom of crowds”
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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How much credence should we give to “the wisdom of crowds”?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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When is it right to call some act – or someone – “evil”?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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From Beyoncé to Taylor Swift — what’s behind the mass appeal of live music events?
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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What is the harm in “deepfakes” — and what are they doing to democracy?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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How can trust be cultivated in a time of pervasive suspicion?
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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What do we lose by succumbing to conspiracy-mindedness?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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In a screen saturated age, is literacy under threat?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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What do we lose when we lose the capacity for boredom?
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Goya’s “Saturn” and its moral challenge
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Politics, farce ... and Fawlty Towers
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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What are playlists doing to our ability to listen to music?
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Dickens’s philosophy of generosity: Revisiting “A Christmas Carol”, 180 years on
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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How much should we expect from the state?
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Should drivers of electric vehicles be taxed more to use the roads?
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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What is social cohesion, what cultivates it, and what undermines it?
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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What is the moral case for a ceasefire in Gaza?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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What’s behind the anger? On Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Do we know what the result of the Voice referendum means?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Is it time to reconsider Australia’s bipartisan commitment to “stopping the boats”?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Some deaths matter more to us than others — but should they?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Can young people stay politically engaged without becoming disillusioned with democracy?
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Travel is bad for the climate — but what if it’s also bad for us?
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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What’s the point of blame? When is it right to forgive?
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Can democracy withstand the strategic use of online confusion?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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In a critical age, are we losing the ability to say why we love what we love?
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Facing the darkness: The moral challenge of Goya’s “Saturn devouring his son” (1823)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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When is a referendum an unethical way of resolving a political question?
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Should climate change make us rethink the ethics of nuclear energy?
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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1 May 1956: Was Elizabeth Anscombe right to charge Harry Truman with murder?
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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8 September 1974: Was Gerald Ford right to pardon Richard Nixon?
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Is there any benefit to boredom?
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Does AI pose a threat to human life — and if so, what kind?
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Are cluster munitions a “lesser evil” in the war in Ukraine?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Why do we distance ourselves from our age?
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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What does it take to address a “wicked problem” like political corruption?
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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What are playlists doing to our ability to listen to music?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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How to respond responsibly to the “cost of living crisis”?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Does the Voice to Parliament undermine Australia’s political traditions?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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“Succession” — from tyranny to tragedy
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Are Labor’s “stage three” tax cuts unjust and unethical?
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May 31, 2023 |
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Is Stan Grant’s decision the result of a broken media?
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May 24, 2023 |
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What is the human cost of success? Revisiting HBO’s Succession
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May 17, 2023 |
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What is the phenomenon of “bigness” doing to human agency?
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May 10, 2023 |
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Is loneliness a problem that can be solved?
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May 03, 2023 |
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Martial virtues, military conditioning, and moral damage
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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“An eye that cannot weep” — What does compassion demand of us?
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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“Knowledge that does not benefit” — On the uses and abuses of information
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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“A soul that will not be satisfied” — The problem of human restlessness
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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“A prayer that is not heard” — The dangers of ego-centric speech
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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“A heart that cannot humble itself” — The virtue of intellectual humility
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Should Fawlty Towers’ farcical vision of Britain be “rebooted”?
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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What does the failure of Robodebt tell us about the government’s “duty of care”?
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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What does it mean to be a moral parent?
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Should early childhood education be compulsory?
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Sports betting: Is it corrupting what it means to be a fan?
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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What is generative-AI doing to our capacity to write — and think?
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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What does it mean to be “literate” — and is it under threat?
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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What’s at stake in this year’s constitutional referendum?
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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What’s the point of political comedy?
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The ethics of shame
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Is anger corrosive to the moral life? A conversation with Christos Tsiolkas
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Purification and the Moral Life: Disciplining the Eyes
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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The Art of Living: Jane Austen's "Emma"
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Bonus episode: The 2022 Simone Weil Lecture on Human Value
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Should you avoid disagreements this Christmas or welcome them?
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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The ethical demands of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Is jealousy a moral emotion, or an immoral one?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Is fashion remaking our bodies?
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Is civility a moral obligation in a democracy?
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Queen at Live Aid, 1985
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Disruption or continuity: What does climate change demand?
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Sports, sponsorship and solidarity
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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What are the moral limits of compromise?
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Can Twitter be reformed, or should it be abandoned?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Live from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Is contempt corroding democracy?
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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How should the West respond to the threats of a wounded Putin?
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Can sport teach us anything about the shape of a fair society?
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Was Queen Elizabeth a “political” figure?
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Is nostalgia necessarily a bad thing?
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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What do we owe our work?
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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How much should we care about Scott Morrison’s “secret ministries”?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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How much polarisation can a democracy withstand?
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The ethics of shame
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Can constitutional recognition be an act of patriotic pride?
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Should voice assistants use the voices of our loved ones?
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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What's the point of political "diversity"?
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Does standpoint epistemology undermine democratic politics?
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Art of Living: Jane Austen's "Emma"
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Persuasion — is it possible, or even desirable?
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Is Julian Assange entitled to a “free speech” defence?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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What’s the point of political comedy?
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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What would a First Nations Voice mean for Australia?
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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The ethical dilemmas of crowd-funding platforms
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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What is the significance of Australia’s federal election?
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May 26, 2022 |
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How do you solve a problem like housing affordability?
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May 19, 2022 |
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Is it ethical to be ambivalent?
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May 12, 2022 |
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Sovereignty, security, and the Solomon Islands
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May 05, 2022 |
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Purification and the Moral Life: The Ethics of Hunger and Eating
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Purification and the Moral Life: Disciplining the Eyes
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Purification and the Moral Life: Chastening Speech
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Purification and the Moral Life: Transforming Desire
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Is anger corrosive to the moral life? A conversation with Christos Tsiolkas
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Live from WOMADelaide: Should children get the vote?
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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What's at stake in the conflict in Ukraine?
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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What’s worse in politics — lying or hypocrisy?
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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"Succession" — A Theatre of Cruelty
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Does Australia have a concept of “solidarity”?
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Was the Religious Discrimination Bill destined to fail?
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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How essential is compulsory voting to Australia’s democratic culture?
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Are we suffering from too much moral language?
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Novak and Boris — why have they elicited such strong public emotions?
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Why don’t we talk more about class?
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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What are we doing when we "quote"?
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Emojis: Universal language, or harbinger of an age of moral illiteracy?
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Should journalists stay away from social media?
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Is "opinion" doing more harm than good?
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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“Prestige television” and the moral life
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Should wealthy nations be procuring booster doses?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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The ethics of “sh*t-stirring”
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Melbourne’s protests — last gasp or harbinger of things to come?
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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The ethics of political U-turns
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Why don’t we talk more about class?
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Should we enjoy sports that ruin athletes' lives?
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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What are we doing when we “quote”?
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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How much should we care about climate change?
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Persuasion — is it possible, or even desirable?
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Has the pandemic shown the unassailability of utilitarianism — or its inherent limitations?
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Has democratic politics become too contemptuous of everyday life?
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Should we avoid humiliating the unvaccinated?
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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PRESENTS — This Much Is True
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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From Abu Ghraib to Nakhon Sawan — why does torture persist?
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Australian politics – is the divide geographical, not ideological?
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Should journalists stay away from social media?
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Was US failure in Afghanistan inevitable?
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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The ethics of dobbing
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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How much dissent is permissible in a public health emergency?
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Can national shame lead to political change?
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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The ethics of space tourism
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Myanmar — what are the limits of political violence?
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Is COVID-19 bringing the worst out of Australian politics?
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Is nihilism compatible with the moral life?
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Has justice been done to George Floyd?
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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What's so bad about laughter?
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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What are we doing when we make promises?
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Are there ethical limits to vaccination incentives?
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Aged care: How do we honour our obligations to the elderly?
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Is it ever OK to abandon your team?
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May 27, 2021 |
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What are the conditions of co-existence in Israel-Palestine?
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May 20, 2021 |
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Fatigue – the emotional cost of the moral life?
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May 13, 2021 |
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Neglected Practices: Solitude
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May 06, 2021 |
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Neglected Practices: Fasting
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Neglected Practices: Not-Knowing
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Neglected Practices: Attentiveness
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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What should become of the office?
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Can politics bring about the change women are demanding?
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Has COVID-19 undermined our commitment to civility?
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Does climate change challenge our concept of moral responsibility?
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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What “justice” can an independent inquiry deliver?
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Emojis: Universal language, or harbinger of an age of moral illiteracy?
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Facebook and the news: should the divorce be permanent?
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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What can our experience of art tell us about the moral life?
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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What democracy needs to survive
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Is “opinion” doing more harm than good?
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Was Twitter right to suspend Trump?
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Is "cancel culture" really constricting free speech?
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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What is AI doing to the moral life?
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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After the fires, are we invited to moral community with trees?
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Ordinary vices: Impatience
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Ordinary vices: Is pride an affront to, or the basis of, dignity?
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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The “great audit”: Taking stock of 2020
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Woke politics: The power of the disempowered?
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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How much should we care about political corruption?
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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War crimes, moral responsibility, and moral injury
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Can America’s post-election divisions be overcome?
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Can Aboriginal political philosophy and political liberalism be reconciled?
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Has Trump revealed democracy’s fragility or resilience?
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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What is AI doing to the moral life?
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Could COVID-19 make inequality worse?
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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The ethics of second chances
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Should we rejoice that Trump has COVID-19?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Should we attempt to escape from “politics”?
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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How far should courts push societies to change?
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Is it wrong to respond to arguments with allegations?
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Why does COVID-19 attract conspiracy theories?
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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US president as "sufferer in chief"?
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Should a COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory?
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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What if COVID-19 doesn’t go away?
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Ordinary vices: Ingratitude
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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What is the “value” of philosophy?
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Is there a moral imperative to wear masks?
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Is COVID-19 the end of globalisation?
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Is "cancel culture" really constricting free speech?
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Can you enjoy sport without crowd noise?
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Should the police be abolished?
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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How to acknowledge the debt of historical injustice?
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Democratic politics is being challenged, but is it changing?
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Ordinary vices: Impatience
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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After the death of George Floyd
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Free riding: Why act, when acting is likely to make no difference?
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May 27, 2020 |
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Ramadan and the reality of interdependence
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May 20, 2020 |
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Is there a moral case against the COVID-19 “shutdown”?
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May 13, 2020 |
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Is COVID-19 bringing the best, or worst, out of our politics?
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May 06, 2020 |
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Is it time to end simulated sex on television and film?
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Ordinary vices: Is pride an affront to, or the basis of, dignity?
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Can we avoid cruelty in the face of COVID-19?
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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How can we live with coronavirus uncertainty?
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Can we cultivate social solidarity in a time of physical distancing?
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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What (new) forms of living might the coronavirus produce?
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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What does the coronavirus reveal about us?
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Is capitalism inimical to ethics?
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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International Women’s Day – cause for celebration, or commiseration?
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Why do we want celebrities to be 'authentic'?
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Ordinary vices: What’s wrong with lying?
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Why does democracy demand transparency?
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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In the aftermath of the Iowa caucus …
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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After the fires, are we invited to moral community with trees?
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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2020 — why does the future look so much like the past?
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Can we overcome terminal disagreement in our politics and morality?
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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What if the greatest threat to a free media was from within?
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Should children be given the vote?
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Jan 01, 2020 |
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False necessities: Is 'taste' enough to morally justify the mass slaughter of animals?
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Dec 25, 2019 |
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Is literary fiction necessary for the moral life?
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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2019 — the year where nothing really mattered?
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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The dangers of 'clipification'
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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What’s wrong with swearing?
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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False necessities: Is economic growth a moral good?
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Does "calling-out" do more harm than good?
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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What happened when the Berlin Wall came down?
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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What moral obligations does feminism impose on men?
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Does democracy have a problem with conspiracies?
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Was betrayal inevitable?
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Oct 16, 2019 |