Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").

Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence.

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse, yet many of the objections to Consequentialism purport to show that Consequentialism requires us to make the world a stinking, bloody mess. The ubiquity of these kinds of arguments shows you just how unseriously many of the critics take Consequentialism.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.