The Ants Have Not Read Kant: Pëtr Kropotkin and Mutual Aid
[He is] that beautiful white Christ which seems to be coming out of Russia … [One] of the most perfect lives I have come across in my own experience.—Oscar Wilde…
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Do You Believe Science?
Science is all the rage at the moment. The Covid-19 pandemic has given us a unique window into how scientists carry out research into the basic mechanisms of disease; how…
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“Why Trust Science?” by Naomi Oreskes.
Photo by Louis Reed It was 27 January 1985, the fortieth anniversary of the camp’s liberation. Holding candles, their faces mutilated and bodies disfigured, the survivors of Josef Mengele’s experiments on…
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Did the Catholic Church Give Birth to Science?
Historically, the creation of ideas has been a messy process. Knowledge has not usually been delivered as an immaculate gem, but as a needle in a grubby haystack of wrong…
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