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Aaron Rabinowitz

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Aaron Rabinowitz is a lecturer in philosophy at Rutgers University, and host of the Embrace The Void and Philosophers in Space podcast.
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Philosophy

We can understand the effect of privilege better when we consider it in terms of moral luck

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Terms like 'privilege' have, rightly or wrongly, become divisive - a simpler, and perhaps more fitting, question to ask is how lucky we've been
Philosophy

What is ‘value’? Reconciling ethics with scientific materialism

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Skeptics can be uncomfortable reconciling ethics with a materialist worldview, but one solution is to accept that 'value' can be an objective concept
Society

Counterweight, and the continued enabling of bad faith ‘anti-woke’ actors

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The 'anti-woke helpline' Counterweight launched in a flurry of uncritical media interviews, but are less forthcoming when it comes to answering reasonable questions from critics
Politics

The American Culture War: Coming soon to a politics near you

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Culture war issues have long been used to try to derail social progress, but as exhausting as they are, they're worth pushing back against
Conspiracy Theories

Bill Cooper: the conspiracy theorist who links afrofuturist “Hoteps” with Alex Jones

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The afrofuturist Hotep movement echoes conspiracy theorist Alex Jones because they're all pulling from the same source material: Bill Cooper
Philosophy

“Who decides?”: how fair questions can derail meaningful action

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The question of who gets to decide how boundaries are set in society can often be a way to distract from efforts to change the status quo
Conspiracy Theories

Can you recognise antisemitism when you see it? An interactive meme adventure

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After Disney dropped one of their stars over antisemitic social media posts, we look at common problematic tropes in 'anti-globalist' imagery
Conspiracy Theories

Beware the ‘They’: once we believe in hidden, evil cabals, we can be convinced of anything

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By blaming an unseen "They" for all that's wrong, conspiracy theories block any genuine skepticism - and that's what makes them so dangerous
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