Can utilitarianism adequately underpin free speech, or do we need natural rights, as per the US Declaration of Independence? But don't natural rights require a God? Prof James Allan and Dr Will Jones go head-to-head.
Politics professor James Alexander reviews Return to Growth by Jon Moynihan and finds its argument unanswerable. If we don’t cut taxes, slash red tape and reduce the size of the state, Britain is heading for bankruptcy.
Are we are all Whigs now, asks Prof James Alexander. "If any historical time looks like ours it is the Whig era of Walpole, when the entire system was tied up in 'establishments' and nets of corruption."
The great Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume would have some things to teach today's woke activists, says Prof James Allan: about a mind-independent reality that has no truck with claims of 'my truth'.
The effort to ‘decolonise’ science is misguided, says Dr John Staddon, a former professor at Duke. The reason women and people of colour are under-represented in science has nothing to do with bias or discrimination.
Politics Professor James Alexander identifies a single line in Patrick Vallance's diaries that reveals the twisted logic behind the lockdown policy.
The University of Edinburgh's excruciatingly woke decision to cancel one of Scotland's greatest Enlightenment philosophers, David Hume, has led to a drop in donations to the university of £2 million.
