My short essay ‘A Constitution Should Help A Country Govern, Not Hobble It‘ is up at Aeon Magazine. Comments welcome. (Many thanks to Sam Haselby, my editor at Aeon, for all his help.)
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Talking About ‘Intellectual Property’ On ‘Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone’
A week or so ago, I recorded an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation‘s Amanda Vanstone for her program Counterpoint (on the ABC’s Radio National.) Amanda and I discussed my recent essay in Aeon Magazine on why the general term ‘intellectual property’ should be discarded, and the why the very notion of ‘intellectual property’ beingContinue reading “Talking About ‘Intellectual Property’ On ‘Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone’”
‘The Usefulness Of Dread’ Is Up At Aeon Magazine
My essay, ‘The Usefulness of Dread‘ is up at Aeon Magazine today.
Robert Talisse On ‘Too Much Democracy’ And The Public-Private Distinction
Over at Aeon Magazine Robert Talisse worries that “our social lives” are being “tyrannised by democracy” because “choices about mundane matters…are all deeply tied to [our] political profile…social worlds are shaped by the travails of contemporary politics” and builds to the conclusion that “there is such a thing as too much democracy,” that “we must reserveContinue reading “Robert Talisse On ‘Too Much Democracy’ And The Public-Private Distinction”
Samir Chopra 