John Stuart Mill

While it can often be tempting to unfollow friends who have differing political views than you, one philosopher tells us why we should embrace, rather than shun, such challenges to our worldviews. 

Many great minds have plenty of bad things to say about democracy, but what about the people who think it is great?

The question isn’t “are you happy”… but rather “what kind of happy are you”? 

Students at an English university have demanded that their curriculum be “decolonized”. What does that mean?  

Can you legislate for good human behavior, or does proposing laws to imprison those who use racial slurs distract from actual progress?

As mankind raises its eyes to Mars and asks, “How do we get there?”, we might need to ask, “Should we go?”. Carl Sagan said we may not be entitled to visit a potentially inhabited planet.