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The people we don't want to stand with: Free speech - again - and the troubling case of Troy Newman

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imageKeep Abortion Legal Protest against Focus on the Family s Stand for the Family event Source Wikimedia commons Photograph by Tony Webster

In previous Cogito posts, I have defended freedom of speech, interpreted in a broad, non-legalistic sense. For example, I have defended Peter Singer’s liberty to express his controversial views on issues at...

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A toast to Pyrrho's Hog (An Apology for Michel de Montaigne)

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imageMontaigne apple

It’s fascinating to reflect on the different stories that philosophers have told themselves at different times about our profession’s history. For these stories have never ceased to change.

“He whose mouth is out of taste, says the wine is flat. The healthy man commends its flavour, and the thirsty its briskness....

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Corbyn's radical defence policies

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Jeremy Corbyn is an interesting chap. He doesn’t look all that dangerous, but he seems to have frightened the life out of the British establishment, not to mention his own political party.

True, some would say they’re one and the same, but his sudden rise to prominence is raising interesting questions about what...

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  2. Thousands of genomes reveal human genetic differences around the world
  3. Australia's first national opera review reaches for a new pitch
  4. What medicines would we pack for a trip to Mars?
  5. Australia’s possible strategy shift on Syria is a nod to Russia's influence
  6. Who has the edge as the Broncos face the Cowboys in the 2015 NRL Grand Final?
  7. How Indonesia's 1965-1966 anti-communist purge remade a nation and the world
  8. Education minister says uni fees won't change for 2016
  9. 'Whitesplaining': what it is and how it works
  10. There is one thing the Coalition can do for climate change that Labor cannot
  11. Managing across generations will deliver more productive workplaces
  12. 'Companies deserve human rights' among litany of weak tax disclosure excuses
  13. Australian foreign policy needs a shake-up after two decades of sclerotic decline
  14. A 21st-century higher education: training for jobs of the future
  15. A 21st-century government must care for our nature and our future
  16. Storytelling with a wink and a smile: the arrival of the Emoji-pocalypse
  17. Not every partnership is about sex
  18. Undying: the life and death of an indigo cloth
  19. Do you need to take some painkillers with food to protect your stomach?
  20. Cost of doctor visits putting off rural Australians: report
  21. Australia's bid for the UN Human Rights Council
  22. The Martian review: science fiction that respects science fact
  23. Explainer: is abortion legal in Australia?
  24. Australia's weaker emissions standards allow car makers to 'dump' polluting cars
  25. Explainer: Glencore and why analysts move stock markets
  26. 'You’ll see vapers everywhere in Europe'. Well, ... no
  27. Politics podcast: Jamie Briggs on the infrastructure needs of Australian cities
  28. Where were the whistleblowers in the Volkswagen emissions scandal?
  29. Booing the messenger: Goodes is gone, but the confronting truth remains
  30. Justin Kurzel's Macbeth: visually magnificent but dramatically unsatisfying
  31. Volkswagen outrage shows limits of corporate power
  32. Behind the coup that backfired: the demise of Indonesia's Communist Party
  33. Five reasons the Turnbull government shouldn't let us spend super on a home
  34. The tropical steam-engine: how does El Niño warm the entire globe?
  35. As China launches a national emissions trading scheme, Australian states threaten to go back to the future
  36. Is Kevin Rudd the very model of a modern UN secretary-general?
  37. How to choose the right training provider
  38. Feeding the troops: the emotional meaning of food in wartime
  39. Broadband is the key infrastructure for the 21st century
  40. Controversies in medicine: the rise and fall of the challenge to Tamiflu
  41. Abbott's post coup stress on display
  42. A new protest movement: Flexn your message through dance
  43. There is water on Mars, but what does this mean for life?
  44. The government's focus on innovation is too narrow
  45. The Visit and other accidental horror films
  46. Inskip beach collapse: just don't call it a 'sinkhole'
  47. Beware the unintended consequences of police-worn body cameras
  48. Yes, it is our business: how corporations can help on Sustainable Development Goals
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