Peter Singer Argues for 'Effective Altruism' for Charitable Giving in His New Book

Peter Singer Argues for 'Effective Altruism' for Charitable Giving in His New Book

However, the point Professor Singer is making is that in our current world where billions still don't have enough to eat and don't enjoy "basic health care, adequate sanitation, and a place at school for each of their children" there are better ways to …

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Odds and Ends

Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Don Young (R-AK) introduced today's companion bill, which marks yet another significant leap of progress in bipartisan support for compassionate medical marijuana legislation. “Police have as much business telling patients …

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Jeremy Clarkson and the Political Correctness of the Right

They tell it like it is, and don't care who knows it. They stand on their own two feet, and take it … Notice how, like magicians manipulating their audiences, Clarkson's defenders move your eye away from the scene of the crime. Once again, you mark …

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Kevin Hart's Nerdiness Rescues Get Hard From Its Uncomfortable Homophobia

Get Hard, Etan Cohen's comedy about a white stockbroker who hires a black man to prepare him for a ten-year stretch in San Quentin, is like a spoon that's almost-but-not-yet sharpened into a shiv. With just a little more effort, it could … But …

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Debunking NARAL's lies about crisis pregnancy centers: Part three

Actually, a 2005 Washington Post piece by biomedical journalist Jon Cohen argues that miscarriage is woefully under-studied, with the 15% number an underestimate that “refers only to 'clinical' pregnancies — those confirmed by a pregnancy test at a …

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