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Of Malice and Men
Double Aspect responds to attacks on another scholar Continue reading
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Contrarians at the Gates
On responsible scholarship and engagement with heterodox ideas Continue reading
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On Responsible Scholarship
A Reply to Stepan Wood, Meinhard Doelle, and Dayna Scott Continue reading
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De la connerie
Je voudrais revenir sur une chronique qu’a publiée hier Alain Dubuc dans La Presse. Faisant allusion à la une récente de Libération qui, s’adressant à l’homme le plus riche de France, qui aurait demandé la nationalité belge dans le but de payer moins d’impôts une fois établi dans le plat pays, hurlait “[c]asse-toi, riche con!”, M. Continue reading
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In Defence of Offensive Government
The Volokh Conspiracy’s Randy Barnett points to an essay by Matt Welch arguing that the more government expends, the more it gives offence to this or that person or group, because its intervention conflicts with someone’s moral views. It’s not just penal laws and regulatory mandates (which prohibit people doing something they find morally required or require Continue reading
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The A-Word
Why is it that we cannot have a sane conversation if the word ‘abortion’ comes up? It is a difficult moral issue of course, but so are others, from the death penalty to the balance governments must strike between freedom and equality, or freedom and security. Yet although debate on these issues is often heated, Continue reading
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