Miscellaneous Writings and Talks

19. 'The Constitution of the Machine: Why We Need a Claudit', Substack (2026).

18. 'Higher Education's AI Panic', Substack (2025).

17. 'Appearance and Reality', Substack (2024).

16. 'Offence, Hypocrisy, and the Function of Democracy', in J.R. Shackleton (ed.) Having Your Say: Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2021): 225-43; full text.

15. 'Freedom of Conscience in UK Health Care: Time for Change?', in Grzegorz Blicharz (ed.) Freedom of Conscience: A Comparative Law Perspective (Warsaw: Instytut Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości, 2019): 315-34; full text.

14. 'Freedom of Conscience in Scandinavian Health Care: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly', in Grzegorz Blicharz (ed.) Freedom of Conscience: A Comparative Law Perspective (Warsaw: Instytut Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości, 2019): 375-94; full text.

13. Guest post at http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2016/10/04/further-clarity-on-co-operation-and-morality/ BMJ Blogs: 'Further Clarity on Co-operation and Morality', 2016.

12. 'Why I am not a Consequentialist', Intellectum 6 (2009; full text)

11. 'Bioethics Today', Human Life Review (Fall, 2008): 98-109 (full text)

10. 'Science, Stem Cells, and Fraud', Intellectum 1 (2006; full text)

9. 'What's Wrong with Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research?', Human Life Review (Fall, 2005): 21-33 (full text)

8. 'Ordinary Duties, Extraordinary Means', Human Life Review (Winter, 2004): 50-6 (full text)

7. 'Perennial Philosophy's Theory of Art', Quadrant (2004): 68-74 (full text; Powerpoint slide show)

6. 'Why I am a Relativist', Quadrant (2003): 38-43 (full text)

5. 'Starved to Death by Order of the Court', Human Life Review (Summer, 2001): 103-12 (full text)

4. 'The War Against the Elderly', Quadrant (2000): 47-52 (full text)

3. 'The Illusion of Animal Rights', Human Life Review (Spring-Summer, 2000): 37-45 (full text)

2. Review of Gordon Moran, Silencing Scientists and Scholars in other Fields, The Spectator (1999): 35-6 (full text)

1. A founding myth in the history of science: review of Jeffrey Burton Russell, Inventing the Flat Earth, Quadrant (1993): 110-11 (full text)