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Any decent list of the most influential living philosophers will include Peter Singer. For nearly 50 years, the Australian ethicist has been at the forefront of progressive politics — his ideas about animal rights and effective altruism have shaped those debates ever since the 80s and his brand of utilitarian progressive thought continues to dominate.More controversially, his writing against the sanctity of life and in favour of the morality of ending the lives of highly disabled infants have angered the Conservative Right as much as the disability lobby on the Left. He has been “cancelled” before the term even existed, with invitations to speak retracted multiple times over the years.Now he is co-Editor of a new “Journal of Controversial Ideas” which seeks to provide anonymity and safe publication for philosophical essays that touch on topics that might otherwise get the authors “cancelled.”I wanted to know whether the brand of ultra-utilitarian, universalist, progressive thought of which he is such a famous proponent has somehow got out of hand and come back to haunt him? Does he feel that defining virtue by our ability to overrule the natural order of things and care as much for faraway people as we do our loved ones in any way led to the populist backlash of 2016? Now that he is founding publications to protect against cancel culture, is he running from a monster that he helped create?I put these questions to him, and and more (including a discussion about his new book ‘The Golden Ass‘), in a highly enjoyable conversation. Many thanks to Peter for sparing the time.On the contemporary Left:They see themselves as defending people who are underprivileged, marginalised, disadvantaged. They want to extend that defence, not just to improving their social and economic position and preventing discrimination against them, but also making sure that they're not offended by remarks that are made. And that brings it into conflict with ideas of freedom of speech because if merely the fact that you might offend somebody is a grounds for preventing you speaking, there's not a lot of freedom of speech left.- PETER SINGER, UNHERDDoes he feel hoisted on his own petard?No, I don't think that because I've always been an advocate of freedom of speech. And in fact I think freedom of speech has been something that the Left traditionally has championed. - PETER SINGER, UNHERDOn identity politics:The idea that if you're a white male, that somehow this discredits you… doesn't seem to me at all a defensible view. I think we should look at what people say in terms of how well argued is this? Do the ideas hold up to critical scrutiny? Not in terms of what's the race or ethnicity or sex of the person who was saying it? - PETER SINGER, UNHERDOn critical race theory:People who describe themselves as proponents of critical race theory make racism just so all-encompassing as an explanation and don't really recognise the genuine and helpful efforts that have been made to make society less racist and to provide more opportunities for people, irrespective of their race. - PETER SINGER, UNHERDOn open borders:I've never been an advocate of open borders. Although in theory, I think a world with open borders would be great. But as a matter of political pragmatism, I've never thought we were ready for that. - PETER SINGER, UNHERDIs the failure to accept open borders a moral shortcoming or a fact of human nature?It is both the fact of human nature and a moral shortcoming. I think it's a fact of human nature that we should not celebrate, because it shows that we have an element of xenophobia: fear or hatred of strangers in our nature. And I accept that it's part of our biological nature, I don't deny that. And reason and ethical argument is not always powerful enough to overcome some of these facts of our nature. - PETER SINGER, UNHERDOn pragmatic idealism:In a democracy, you can't get too far ahead of where people are, you have to bring people along with you. Sometimes people and political leaders should do more than they are doing to bring people along with them. - PETER SINGER, UNHERDOn why he started the Journal of Controversial ideas:We were worried about the fact that people, particularly more junior untenured, academics, would be intimidated against publishing something controversial, for fear that this could do harm to their career, or personally that they would get such abuse that they would not be able to handle it. - PETER SINGER, UNHERDOn his new book, ‘The Golden Ass':It's a Roman novel…which was written in the second century of the Common Era. Apuleius was born in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian and died probably in the reign of Marcus Aurelius. So it's about a man who gets turned into a donkey because he dabbles in magic rather foolishly and has a bit of bad luck, and becomes a donkey and can't get out of it for some time.Apuleius had enough empathy with a donkey to describe various forms of cruel treatment that donkeys were enduring in the Roman Empire…There's a lot of empathy with animals. And that was certainly what first attracted me to it.- PETER SINGER, UNHERD See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ximena Barreto, Business Development Director and Political Advisor at Engineered Tax Services and the Director of Communications and Grassroots Strategy for Frontiers of Freedom. She was also a grassroots leader of Latino’s for Trump. Barreto has drawn staunch opposition from the Left for being a Latina willing to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, free enterprise, and the concept that America is an exceptional nation with unparalleled freedom and opportunity. TOPIC...The Left: They are using this crisis to their political advantage!! Edward Ring, contributing editor and senior fellow with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for American Greatness. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Forbes, and other media outlets. TOPIC...THE INMATES NOW RUN THE VENICE BEACH Dr. Matthew Bunson, Executive Editor of EWTN News (Eternal World Television Network) American author of more than fifty books, a historian, professor, editor, Roman Catholic theologian, Senior Contributor for EWTN, the Catholic multimedia network, Senior Fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and Faculty Chair at Catholic Distance University. TOPIC...The importance of the Holy Week and Easter!!

Psst...we don't believe or condone any of the shit in the blurb from the back of the book below. This shit's cray, y'all. Discover how to eradicate the SOURCE of stress, anxiety and depression If you've ever felt there was something holding you back in life, you were right. It's called the subconscious, unconscious or reactive mind the hidden part of your mind that stores painful experiences, then uses them against you. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, the New York Times and International bestseller, shows you how to get rid of the reactive mind for a happier, healthier life. The revolutionary book everyone must read. give it a'listen OKAAAAAY so the blurb from the back of the book sucks, right? Well if you thought the blurb was bad, just wait til you hear the gals read direct quotes from the book! We've got sexually aggressive dental assistants causing engrams in patients, sentient fetuses getting sad from being gently squished while their mom is having sex, and a passage about how pig grunts/thorughly bruised baby's spines/a prayer to god are equal to the "reactive mind" and cause arthritis. Well now that's a FINE case of arthritis you've got there!Welcome to the shit show! Mentioned Links If you want a deep dive into L. Ron Hubbard's life, maybe check out the series done by Last Podcast on the Left? They can tell you everything you never wanted to know about the founder of Scientology.L. Ron Hubbard seemed to think that machines are perfect. OH, REALLY? Well here's a brand new, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed robot killing itself in a mall fountain. If this was a suicide machine, it would have truly been perfect, but it wasn't. It was just a simple Paul Blart Mall Bot who checked out of this mortal coil mere minutes after seeing it. Perfection!No matter what L. Ron Hubbard barfed out in this book, please know that mental illness is real and nothing to be ashamed of. If you need help, please seek it. Here's an article on how to find a therapist, if an IRL therapist is too daunting here's an article on therapy apps. Goodreads We'd love to have you join us in opining over on Goodreads. You can find this book, Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard, over there, and of course, join our discussion group here. Spotify Playlist Ash mixes up playlists for our books - here's a sample for this week. You can check out our Spotify profile for like, all of them if you want to see more.

What on earth is so confusing about terrorism for the Left? They can't name our enemy. They can't separate it from gun control. They don't do anything to secure the border. It's time for real leadership.

What on earth is so confusing about terrorism for the Left? They can't name our enemy. They can't separate it from gun control. They don't do anything to secure the border. It's time for real leadership.