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In reply to Roderick T. Long. I think that’s a very over-charitable reading of the prospectus that ignores what an Author does when he’s trying to gaslight his audience. Yes, the Author pays lip service to the blatantly obvious fact that d…

From the excerpts you quote (of course I haven’t read the whole prospectus), it’s not clear that the author and you are contradicting each other. In those excerpts, the author doesn’t seem to be saying that one cannot be at blame for…

Despite being out of academia for several months now, I occasionally get invitations from academic book publishers to review book proposals and book manuscripts in ethics and political philosophy. Here’s a book proposal that somehow found its way to me: Call “disease moralism” the thesis that disease outbreaks result from people’s moral failures. Disease moralism…

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Here’s an idea: let’s take two of the most crucial, stressful jobs out there, teaching and nursing, push their practitioners past their limits, then complain when they deliver the impossible. By all means, let’s clap for them, call them “heroes,” give them gold stars for their performance, and then push the burden of their difficulties…

Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was the cheapest. This has changed dramatically. In most places power from new renewables is now cheaper than new fossil fuels.