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A Tale of Three Sydneys
As the global population continues to increase and urbanization rates reach all-time highs, cities must adopt new…
Why We Shouldn’t Want Criminals to Suffer
This essay deals with several related issues in the theory of punishment and dessert, human agency, and the self.…
LGBTI Rights in Latin America: A(nother) Pending Debt
On June 30th, the 17th edition of the Marcha del Orgullo Gay (Gay Pride Parade) took place in Peru. Like most…
Cities and Sustainable Development
What is Sustainable Development?
A quarter of the world’s population lives without electricity. More than three…
Do We Have Moral Obligations to Non-Citizens?
The argument that states have obligations to non-citizens is hardly novel. This has long been recognized by…
Politics as Entertainment: Partisanship in Post-Modern…
Introduction
In his seminal Amusing Ourselves to Death the sociologist Neil Postman observed that…
Caught Between Two Cultures
Growing up in Athens, Greece, I always found myself at the cross roads of different cultures. My Canadian family…
Why Worry About a National Identity?” Why Pluralism and…
In a recent Macleans piece Scott Gilmore writes passionately and rigorously about “why Canada is not a country.”…
Conservatives on Freedom of Speech
Conservative commentators have spent a lot of time recently commenting on threats to freedom of speech, especially…
The Nearsightedness Of The Gun Debate’s Slippery Slope
Nearly two decades after the watershed event that was the Columbine High School massacre, school shootings…
Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: Too Many Words and…
From time immemorial, priests have occupied a position of privilege and even reverence in Western societies. While…
The Holy Constitution
A doctored image of Parkland shooting survivor and activist Emma Gonzalez ripping the US constitution…