Sophie Grace Chappell interview
The UK’s first openly trans philosopher explains how she bases her gender identity in experience, not theory
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Author: Julian Baggini
Should AI have rights?
Until we can be sure whether robots are capable of consciousness, it may make sense to err on the side of granting them protections
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A Home on the Rock
To tell the history of the Cliffs is to tell the history of our country, one that stretches back for centuries and reminds us that we are a nation of immigrants who are brought together by nothing more than shared land and the history that goes with it. We can and should build an open, inclusive, generous and hospitable patriotism, and we can lay the foundation stone for it on the White Cliffs of Dover.
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The appeal of underwhelming psychics
Superstition and nonsense exert a grip on people in part because the reasoning that makes them think there may just be something in it is of a form which is both natural and, used properly, perfectly rational.
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BoJo, ou l’art de performer sur du vide
L’ancien gouverneur de l’État de New York, Mario Cuomo, aurait un jour déclaré que les hommes politiques doivent faire campagne avec poésie, et gouverner en prose. Johnson a fait la campagne d’un amuseur télé bas de gamme, et a gouverné exactement de la même manière.
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