Peter Singer

“The fact is, we are walking past ponds all the time, because through simple, cost-effective interventions such as the distribution of anti-malaria bednets or supplements in low income countries, all of us living in…”

2026-10-20

“Nine in ten children in the world's poorest countries reaching age ten unable to read a simple sentence is not an inevitable consequence of poverty.”

2026-09-16

“But the evidence does not support the idea that technology alone will solve the learning crisis.”

2026-09-16

“In order to understand Marx, you really do need to know something about Hegel. It's a mistake to think you could read Marx as a scientist or an economist without understanding the Hegelian framework of his thought.…”

2018-05-18, book, by G. W. F. Hegel, recommended

“I chose The Communist Manifesto, rather than, say, Capital because it shows in a much easier-to-read, shorter work something that is central to Marx's vision.”

2018-05-18, book, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, recommended

“I chose this book particularly because we are having a lively discussion about freedom of expression today. Some of the challenges to freedom of expression today come from the left rather than from the right, although…”

2018-05-18, book, by John Stuart Mill, recommended