Category: politics

• May 6, 2011

  New public how

  Me thinking aloud at New Public Thinking.
• April 12, 2011

  Who is David Brooks?

  Here’s my Huffington Post blog on the New York Times columnist David Brooks.
• March 30, 2011

  What is new public thinking?

  Dougauld Hine talks about what’s right and what’s wrong with David Cameron’s big society. Keith Kahn-Harris, Pat Kane, and I reflect upon the nature of thinking in public.
• March 23, 2011

  Philosophical counseling and the language of trying things out

  Preface There is a beautiful line in the late philosopher Robert Nozick’s book The Examined Life about taking a position. Nozick confesses that when he was younger he believed, like any good analytic philosopher, that he had to take a position on everything. As he got older, he realized that “position-taking”–the presumed need to make…
• March 21, 2011

  Agonising, agonism, and nuclear power

  Bridget McKenzie @ New Public Thinking discusses with finesse and honesty the nuclear problem in the context of climate change. Here is my comment. — Dear Bridget, There is a lovely line in the late philosopher Robert Nozick’s book The Examined Life about taking a position. Nozick confesses that when he was younger he believed,…