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Battlestar Galactica philosophy infographic with fractured mirror

Back to Battlestar Galactica 2004

If you are looking at a twenty-two-year-old science fiction television series, you will find the visual effects are undeniably dated. The pacing belongs to a different era of broadcasting. It features people in leather jackets flying spaceships. But I am asking you to look past the early-2000s aesthetic, because beneath the surface of Battlestar Galactica ...

Formal courtroom with judges, barristers and seated audience

THE DEBATE: Is unjust law still law?

The following is entirely fictional, including all names and the status of every person depicted. Caution: The arguments presented are not necessarily legally correct nor entirely wrong. They do not represent cogent arguments. Proposition: “The House proposes to the parties that unjust law is still law, and that is the foundation of order.” Venue: The ...

Morally bankrupt

Today the British people collectively decided that in the face of incontrovertible evidence, visible to their own eyes, of mass killings of people in Syria by chemical weapons (CW), that no intervention should be made. In a sense, I shouldn’t be surprised or shocked, because as I’ve said many times before, evidence does not guide ...