You would not expect the most socially conservative politician in the UK and the most woke on the Left to be of the same mindset. Yet it is so: though both sides would react to such an observation with horror.
On the one extreme we have Edwin Poots, last week elected leader of Northern Ireland s Democratic Unionist Party, replacing Arlene Foster.
Poots had led a coup against the current First Minister at Stormont, in part because her relatively liberal social attitudes (liberal in DUP terms, that is) had offended him and others within the party who adhere to the Biblical literalism of their founding father, the late Rev Ian Paisley.
Pegamento social y buena ciudadanía
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L histoire sombre du décolonialisme
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An Equality Worth Defending
In our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote of self-evident truths “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” and condemned government that was destructive of those ends.
Given how important that document was, with its signers putting all of those ends at risk, there had to be a high level of agreement about what “created equal” meant (sadly, with the exception of slaves). Since then, however, discussion of equality has become a source of confusion and contradiction.
The Industrial Revolution unleashed what economist Deirdre McCloskey calls the Great Enrichment, the enormous increase in standards of living and life expectancy of the past 250 years.
The Biden Administration seems intent on renewing the war against fossil fuels to combat global warming. Before going down this path, I hope Americans will consider Alex Epstein’s argument in
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.
A moral argument requires a standard of value and Mr. Epstein’s is human life. As he explains, “I think that our fossil fuel use so far has been a moral choice
because it has enabled billions of people to live longer and more fulfilling