Cultural relativism and harmful cultural practices

Last week, at least a few of my stu­dents essen­tially argued that they didn’t believe there was any such thing as a uni­ver­sal human right. “Human rights are cul­tur­ally con­tin­gent,” said one.The ques­tion I think I want to ask today is about...

How Rich Breeders Changed the World”

Ross Gittins is a great writer who I relied on extens­ively in high school to explain com­plex eco­nom­ics. His latest art­icle in the SMH is on a fas­cin­at­ing book by Gregory Clark, a pro­fessor of eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­sity of...