Religion – Club Troppo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aupVJkTnIqY This is one of the best podcast interviews we’ve done. We discuss Peter Heather’s marvellous book “Christendom: the triumph of a Religion”. It covers...

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The Great Covid Panic: now out!

Paul Frijters

September 3, 2021September 9, 2021

It's here, the booklet I am sure you have all been waiting for. The one which Gigi Foster and Michael Baker slaved over for 10...

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Guest post from John Burnheim

Nicholas Gruen

August 18, 2021

John sent me the text below in response to reading my essay on John Macmurray. As you may know he trained as a priest and...

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Sex and war in Afghanistan

Paul Frijters

August 17, 2021August 17, 2021

I visited Afghanistan only once, on a brief visit in 2014. I fell off a donkey to great hilarity of the local villagers, slept in...

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Pragmatic utilitarianism?

Paul Frijters

June 30, 2021July 1, 2021

I have been a utilitarian for about 30 years now and am seen in my academic work as an extreme version of the genre. I...

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On the nature of gods and inequality.

Paul Frijters

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

Sometimes one has an idea that blazes into one's consciousness as a solution to one particular concern, which then starts to be something much bigger...

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What experiments on cult behaviour tell us about lockdown beliefs

Paul Frijters

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

With a recent publication in Nature that reported lockdowns have no effect on covid-cases or covid-deaths, there are now over 30 studies that fail to...