#37 On free markets
Dear Mat, Good questions. I guess I am being ideological, in the sense that it’s impossible not to be. I take it that more freedom for more people is better
The work of Jamie Freestone and Mathew McGann
Dear Mat, Good questions. I guess I am being ideological, in the sense that it’s impossible not to be. I take it that more freedom for more people is better
Dear Master F, We should just deal quickly with this notion of “rigidity” but then I think we can move on. If I understand you correctly you call M/F rigid
Dear M, Our representations of the world are of roughly two kinds: innate (you call them “toolkits”) and ideological (which you call “maps”)*. The problem with maps, you say is
Dear Mat, Even if we cast aside our ideological, manufactured maps it doesn’t quite mean that we’re mapless. Surely the process of evolution endowed us with a series of inherited maps.
Dear Mat, There’s a bet involved here. For me the odds are very bad that any serious change will improve the system. For me. I flourish in a liberal democracy
Don’t blame the victim and don’t blame the perpetrator. I call out victim blaming wherever I see it. Obviously in rape culture the phrase denotes people who offer reasons that women
Reading this article by my friend Zoya Patel, editor of Lip magazine, about people who use the word feminazi, I was reminded of something I used to tell my students about the language they chose to use in
Dear Gzorgax I want to tell you about the mummy wars: a debate over what women should do when human couples produce offspring. Historically, in such cases the young infant