Jamal

But the concern "about British laws being overruled by EU laws", as you put it, is not a matter of national pride or historical respect. It's a matter...

Also, don't dismiss the conservative case against the EU. There seem to be more conservatives than leftists making the same pro-democracy case against...

The British Left was traditionally against the EU, but it has flipped over to the other side in recent years, which may be a legacy of New Labour's pr...

For whoever is interested, we have a section for reading groups that could do with more action. http://thephilosophyforum.com/categories/reading-group...

Anything in particular?

Yes, I think you're right. I'm not sure what I was getting at but there's something. I'll have to think about it.

It seems to me that the traits or virtues I mentioned are far less valued in Western culture too, and even sometimes held in contempt or suspicion.

I think there's a grain of truth in what @"Agustino" has been saying about the feminization of men. He has noticed something that is real, but gets hi...

In what way are education systems changing people for the worse? And when you say "the young people being like they are", what do you mean? What do yo...

A song about getting too hot and then cooling down in the pool. Brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBg-ukRUJuQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvumIMkoZx8

Sometimes it is, as in Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile (a military dictatorship in which neoliberalism was first tried out in earnest), and China tod...

Well, it's popularly known as a conservative publication and its strongest and longest affiliation has been to the British Conservative Party. But it'...

Maybe, but note that it's not a problem for the Spectator, which is not Leftist. As Baden's been saying, it's a conservative publication.

There is nothing particularly Tory or right-wing about the article's observations.

As an editor I similarly might make the decision not to run with such a headline, for the reasons you state. But that's not what I meant by suppressio...

If you refuse to bake a cake with a decoration you find immoral, aren't you discriminating against the cake rather than against the person who wants y...

I'd like to say I'm shocked, but of course I'm not at all. In hiding facts from people you consider less enlightened than you, you only make things wo...

And yet it's largely accurate, so it seems to me. At least if we take "Left-wing" in one of its ordinary, current senses. I know you're not denying an...

But let me ask: if it were shown that sympathy for ISIS and Islamic ultra-conservativism were significantly higher among Muslims than among other peop...

You must have misunderstood, because what you are saying is absurd. Using an adjective to qualify a noun in no way implies that other nouns correctly ...

As far as I can make sense of this it looks like you might be responding to my use of the term "Islamic terrorism". On that assumption... If I talk ab...

Even if I don't think Islamic terrorism can be seen as anti-Imperialist resistance, the West is crucial to the Islamist narrative. In that narrative, ...

Yes, I've been readng Burke's excellent New Threat from Islamic Militancy, and I don't have any serious issues with what he says.

Do you mean the incentives of the people who did it? Again, if you look at the history of al Qaeda and ISIS you'll see that the incentive was not cent...

If you read that research more carefully you'll see that what it shows is that recent Western intervention has opened up space for the spread of terro...

Speak English boy. Otherwise, those links don't contradict what I said, and I've been very impressed with Scott Atran's analysis in particular.

One of the very common alternative narratives has the same effect, structures real events in the same way, and is equally shallow. The idea is that th...

As a general principle, I think people should be able to go where they want.

Unless you subscribe to some totalitarian pseudo-morality, @"Agustino", laws are not necessarily good or right, and the most interesting political deb...

Everyone chill the fuck off.

If this doesn't count as stifling debate I don't know what does.

Well, I would question your use of "up" instead of "down". One surely relaxes, or calms, the fuck down, no?

I started out by saying I thought there was an anti-Israel bias outside America, then went on to say I thought antsemitism was very relevant to a disc...

No, I am saying that the accusation of antisemitism is not always a "cudgel used to stifle debate", as you are implying it always is. And I am saying ...

Anti-semitism is prejudice against Jews. That's what it means, and it's what it has meant since it was coined. You might argue that it was mis-named, ...

Well, nothing should be used as a cudgel to stifle debate. Portraying the accusation of anti-semitism as a debate-stifling cudgel is partly what these...

I think you'd need to argue for this, not only because left-wing anti-semitism is a very well-known phenomenon going back to the nineteenth century, b...

I was just pointing out that it was relevant, and I was aware you didn't say it wasn't. As for your last statement, there are serious thinkers who sug...

In my view, anti-Semitism is crucial to a discussion about the current political campaigns against Israel and the general attitudes towards it (though...

Thankfully not everyone on the Left falls for it.

Well, there's certainly a rabid bias against Israel infecting the rest of the world right now so I suppose you're kind of right.

Doesn't sound all that bad to be honest, but what do I know? Now wait just a minute. I don't recall saying anything about Israel on this forum or the ...

I have no opinion on the matter--except that I like Carter for his support of GM crops--but I'm curious: what was so bad about him as a president?

If this woman only managed to get to the abortion clinic in the third trimester, would you still oppose a law that forced her to go through with the b...

I think I can dismiss them as conservative rhetoric, because the evidence I've already linked to shows that women do not do it on a whim. But in the e...

Fair enough. I can appreciate that. In fact I don't know if I'd say that late abortions are, necessarily, always morally unproblematic, for the reason...

I understand this, and I agree with it as far as it goes. But I don't understand this.

It's at times like these that I really miss TMT. EDIT: I was curious so I searched PF and found this: (Y)

But that doesn't make it arbitrary. If you're right, it makes it habitual or conventional at best, irrational at worst. But you're wrong anyway. I am ...