top of page
About JLI
Director's Welcome
Our Principles
Our People
Global Essay Prize
Prize Winners
Plagiarism
Past Essays
Our Courses
2025 Courses
Admissions
Watch Our Video
Apply Now
Contact
Invite Us To Your School
More...
Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
NEWS &
OPINION
Not a safe space, but a courteous one.
"
We are at a crisis point, locked in an existential conflict over race and identity and culture...
instead of scorching the earth between us, we will try every day to find common ground."
Elizabeth Keane
All Posts
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
History
Current Affairs
Universities
Culture
Psychology
Search
Log in / Sign up
Matthew Raikes
Mar 17, 2021
4 min read
Classical Liberalism’s Golden Ticket
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is gaining momentum. DLT is a peer-to-peer digital database that is shared across multiple devices ...
Chris Lloyd
Mar 6, 2021
6 min read
The Problem with Facebook. And How to Fix It.
The Fairness Doctrine was a 1949 policy that required holders of broadcast licenses (so TV and radio) to air contrasting views on controv...
Martin Cox
Feb 27, 2021
3 min read
I Think You're Wrong. Tell Me More.
Facebook decided to ban one of our ads this week. They didn't tell us why. The offending ad was an invitation to visit our new blog to re...
Bryan Caplan
Feb 26, 2021
3 min read
Loyalty Oaths Compared: An Orwellian Exercise
A key tenet of American’s civic religion is that the McCarthy-era persecution of Communists and Communist sympathizers was both paranoid ...
Robin Koerner
Feb 26, 2021
4 min read
How to Get Lucky
I am sure that the point I shall briefly share in this blog post has been made many times and shared by many people before me. But I’d ne...
Ethan Christian Tan
Feb 19, 2021
8 min read
Is Philosophy Like Science?
Science and philosophy share the fundamental goal of knowledge production. The former explains and predicts the material universe, and...
Nayah Victoria Thu
Feb 17, 2021
8 min read
Should We Care About Social Cohesion?
In a world where our common future looks increasingly uncertain, humanity needs a measure of collective potential: social cohesion. Using...
Michael Inwood
Feb 16, 2021
15 min read
In Praise of Scepticism
In ordinary conversation, a philosophical approach to life is often regarded as having a calm and resigned attitude to it, especially to ...
bottom of page