James' notepad

I listened to "Start The Week" on Radio 4, on Monday 16th January 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019f8b5 I listened to he...

Why do left-wing philosophers feel it acceptable to jettison their philosophical skills as soon as they start talking about politics? Philos...

As you know, I don't think wealth or income inequality is in any way at all a problem. I am increasingly of the opinion, though, that pe...

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/08/piracy-test-for-moral-inversion.html "It is relatively recently that piracy worldwide was ...

http://liberalbiorealism.wordpress.com/ : a blog attempting to create "a viable and just political philosophy consistent with likely tr...

Or, Kaldor-Hicks charity.  An action is Pareto efficient if it makes some people better off without making anyone else worse off. Pareto e...

The Left cannot understand colonialism because they cannot understand profit. They cannot understand that it is possible to make a profit wi...