The Philosophical Muser

Politics has changed a lot over the centuries. The dominant form of politics used to be loosely based on a Christian flavoured notion of ...

It was the name of the blog that first grabbed my attention on a page full of links - it leapt out at me: " Capitalism Creates Pove...

Combating racism is one of the most essential things humans do, and like every case of seeking the common good, it is a work in progress....

Since increasing my readership over the past couple of years, through a growing following, but also in no small part due to high(er) prof...

In this morning's papers is the news that an extreme Icelandic party called the Pirate party looks set to form the next government. W...

A defining characteristic of quite a few public personalities is that they latch on to partial truths but then take to hyperbole or mental ...

Apart from as a token term, there isn't really any such thing as 'luck' in the world. Of course we ascribe fortune to events...

After declaring that the government she leads will always be driven by "the interests of the many ordinary families for whom life is...

Worried about a potential nose-diving economy that is very unlikely to materialise (and long-term almost certainly won't), the quasi-g...

Today the Wall Street Journal has pointed us to lots of research to show why there is no empirical evidence for Thomas Piketty’s highly ...

In terms of distribution of intelligence across the nation, rather than the assumed normal distribution - a Gaussian bell curve of intell...

The Labour Party is in the biggest mess in its history, which is particularly noteworthy given that we are only two decades on from argua...