Tag Archive: Morality

Two more homophobic churches for South Africa!

Last year, I disagreed with Malusi Gigaba’s decision to bar the homophobic preacher Steven Anderson from entering the country. One of the arguments I...

Populism, more than prejudice, is the problem with Trump

This has been a pretty bad year. What we’ve lost includes Muhammad Ali, Prince, Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Maurice White, Glenn Frey, George Martin,...

Dealing with “Unintentional Racism”

Eusebius McKaiser invited me onto his radio show to talk about intentions and their role in assigning praise and blame, or more broadly, in...

Caster Semenya, and Fairness in Sport (and Life)

If we were to design athletic competition from scratch, how would we proceed? I think, given all the biases we’ve challenged or discarded since...

Zuma – manifestly unfit for purpose

Moral debates are not settled in courts. The law can be profoundly immoral, if it is written and practiced by those who want to...