(Note: this is a piece I wrote in 2020 and put on my personal website at the time. It still seems germane to the current moment so I’m republishing it here as an ‘extra’ for subscribers. Normal service will resume with a completely new piece on April 5th - my rough schedule is to write a new thing once a fortnight.
Thanks for all your work. It's been really valuable for me. Jacinda Arden pushed the "kindness" message in New Zealand and, to be honest, I think it was (overall) helpful simply because people were reeling a bit from pandemics etc, and a simple message helped. But as always your work has added some nuance and made me think.
Thank you. Your articles always get me to re-examine my own ideas and attitudes, which is of course the effect good writing by a philosopher has
Thanks for all your work. It's been really valuable for me. Jacinda Arden pushed the "kindness" message in New Zealand and, to be honest, I think it was (overall) helpful simply because people were reeling a bit from pandemics etc, and a simple message helped. But as always your work has added some nuance and made me think.
Quite marvellous to have these ideas so well articulated.