#88: A (New) Darwinian Left — Peter Singer (Live In Melbourne)

Show notes

Selected links

• ‘The Dos and Donts of Social Distancing’, The Atlantic article by Kaitlyn Tiffany
• Endcoronavirus.org guidelines
• Follow Peter: Website | Twitter
• The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer
• ‘The people’s decade: how will history come to define the 2010s?’, The Spectator article by Niall Ferguson
• ‘High Tide? Populism in Power, 1990-2020’, report by the Tony Blair Institute For Global Change
• ‘Going to Extremes: Politics after Financial Crises, 1870-2014’, paper by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, and Christoph Trebesch
• A Darwinian Left, by Peter Singer
• ‘The end of left and right’, 2005 The Spectator article by Andrew Kenny
• The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
• ‘Reintroducing group selection to the human behavioral sciences’, 1994 paper by David Sloan Wilson and Elliott Sober
• The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin

Topics discussed

• Is the left in retreat around the Anglosphere? 14:42
• What does “the left” even mean? 18:32
• How can the left be more Darwinian? 22:40
• Selfish gene theory vs group selection. 29:09
• Have the New Atheists outlived their usefulness? 43:15