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On Left and Right Politics: Andy Ngo and Marie Colvin

I know that this was the subject of my last piece and I apologise if I’m going to bore you. However, this is something I’ve been brooding upon to the last couple of days. I have seen a number of friends and colleagues posting and writing about this

Analysing Antifa Attacking a Right-Wing Journalist

One of the big pieces of news that rocked the internet this weekend was concerning an anti-far counter-protest in Portland, Oregon on where a right wing-journalist, Andy Ngo, was attacked and injured and had some camera equipment stolen. The right-wing media are going ballistic about this incident in a way

Free Will: Have We Outgrown It or Is It Still a Useful Illusion?

I was having a conversation on Facebook about this so I thought I'd bring it here, setting the scene in this first post. Let's assume that libertarian free will is not true. I have written a lot on this over the past 10 years such that

John Adams on Christianity

A friend of mine forwarded on some great quotes from Norman Cousins' In God We Trust concerning Founding Father John Adams and his opinions on Christianity:Christianity to him was the "brightness of the glory and the express portrait of the character of the eternal, self-existent, independent, benevolent,

Lebanon's Nonreligious

I recently posted excerpts from a BBC article detailing the deconversion of many people in Turkey. Now the BBC has produced a similarly-themed video concerning the deconversion of those in Lebanon. Good luck to these brave people. If any of them see this, I would love them to contribute a

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