Many of you will know of the famous philosophical trolley thought experiment. For those who don't: Imagine a trolley cart hurtling down a train track on course to hit five workers
Personhood is a notoriously tricky philosophical term to define, let alone argue about in court. Indeed, the argument that a fertilized human egg has personhood is an incredibly difficult claim to establish. Nonetheless,
When it was built in 2018, the Kerch Bridge was the pride of Russian imperialism, much to the chagrin of the Ukrainians. The construction spans the Kerch Strait that separates the Black Sea
The age-old problem of deciphering the meaning of life never gets old as a philosophical project. The word "decipher" here is the wrong word to use from a humanist's
The world has been perilously close to an apocalypse on a number of occasions. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is one of the most famous. It actually involved several examples, with the
Colonel General Gennady Zhidko is being reappointed to command Russia's Eastern Military District. One pro-Russian Telegram user has claimed that the general and others have created "a wall of lies.
One of the arguments in my most recent book 30 Arguments Against the Existence of "God" concerns OmniGod creating this world, and that this world must be the best of all
In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and essentially occupied parts of two regions (oblasts) in Ukraine, incurring the impotent "wrath" of much of the rest of the world. The lack of meaningful
The most right-wing government since Mussolini is forming a government in Italy after a general election this past weekend. This comes as no surprise and accords with polling that preceded the election, causing
Vladimir Putin has a well-earned reputation for saber-rattling that in the end amounts to nothing. But when the saber is the most destructive weapon known to humanity—nuclear weapons some seven hundred times
"The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it. It’s...but the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’
The writing has been on the wall since Brexit. The United Kingdom, made of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, is now counting its days. A further nail was driven into the coffin