This page links archived versions of the old Setting the World to Rights blog. The overwhelming majority of posts on that site were written by philosopher and physicist David Deutsch. The PDFs were recovered from archive.org using a (mostly) automated process.
List of individual PDFs below. Enjoy!
Filename |
001 Our Politics |
002 About Setting The World To Rights |
003 Our Comments Policy |
004 History of Israel |
005 It's Not About Oil |
006 History |
007 Curious About Joe McCarthy |
008 On Loyalty – Part 1_ True Allies, True Loyalty |
009 Contact Us |
010 Why |
011 Legitimacy of the Post-War Iraqi Government |
012 United Nations Reform – A Modest Suggestion |
013 At Least One of Us Has Gone Mad |
014 On Loyalty – Part 2_ Who_ Whom |
015 Perhaps the UN Should Send In Some Saddam Inspectors |
016 US troops arrive at Baghdad Bob's press conference. He responds_.pdf |
017 US Libertarian Party Protests Against Censorship of Iraqi TV |
018 From Whom Can the Coalition Accept Unconditional Surrender |
019 Is Nothing Sacred |
020 Sex vs. the FCC.pdf |
021 Attributed Articles |
022 Libertarian Party Foreign Policy Is Not Immoral |
023 Martyrs to Fear |
026 Suicide Bombers |
027 D'oh! |
028 Please DON'T Come Home |
029 On Loyalty – Part 3_ The Individual and the Nation |
030 France, Scary |
031 What Saddam Was Planning When He Invaded Kuwait |
032 Women in Qatar and Children in England |
033 Rational vs Irrational Anarchism |
034 Cargo Cult Politics |
035 Dead Union Talking |
036 What Are These Sanctions For |
037 Washington Post's Disturbing Hostility to Daniel Pipes |
038 Now Look Here, Mr Blunkett |
039 The European Factor |
040 Not Venal, Evil |
041 Link to The World |
042 Following the Coalition's victory, what will be found first (Poll) |
043 Following the Coalition's victory, what will be found first (Results) |
044 In The News... |
045 The Other Appeasement |
046 Proper Responses to Treachery |
047 Correcting Common Errors |
048 Our First Convert From Idiotarianism |
050 Holocaust Memorial Day |
051 Putin Taunts Blair |
052 Scientism Watch – Fishy Feelings |
053 Deceptively Irrational |
054 Foreskin or Against |
055 Seriously Satirical |
056 Roadmap or Carjacking |
057 Introducing Our Series, “A Short History of Israel” |
058 1. Anti-Semitism and Zionism |
059 A Short History of Israel |
060 Anti-Semitism and Zionism |
061 What Are Armies For |
062 Lunatics, the Asylum, Self-parodying … |
063 New Testament Quotations |
064 Frank Meets Jesus |
065 2. The Gathering Storm |
066 The Gathering Storm |
067 In a Nearby Universe … |
068 Delusions About Jurisdiction |
069 Was the Irgun a Terrorist Organisation |
070 Patriot (Yeah, Right) Refuses to Celebrate |
071 3. The War of Independence |
072 The War Of Independence |
073 Lincoln's War |
074 Two Wishes For The World... |
075 Studies We'd Like To Commission – 1- On Idiotarianism |
076 Give us Guns! |
077 In a Nearby Universe … |
078 4. Independence, But No Peace |
079 Independence, But No Peace |
080 There Is No Such Thing As Induction |
081 More Or Less |
082 Axes |
083 BBC-zarro World |
084 The Scandal of Faked Grades |
085 Contraceptives- We've Been Had! |
086 We Had to Shoot Them Down a Second Time |
087 5. The Suez Crisis |
088 The Suez Crisis |
089 Democracy Must be Experienced to be Learned! |
090 The Settler Non-Problem |
091 Shoot the Junk Down |
092 Do We Have a Winner |
093 Ignorance is a Battlefield |
094 Neither Death Nor Taxes |
095 Weapons of Mass Distortion |
096 Is Selling Land a Crime |
097 An Opinion Poll in Iraq |
098 There Was a Nazi Spy in Britain in WW2 After All |
099 Shock, Horror! Government Puts Spin on Policy! |
100 6. Eleven Years of Fighting, Six Days of War |
101 Eleven Years of Fighting, Six Days of War |
102 The Stuff of Dreams |
103 The Economic Case Against the Euro |
104 How to Ruin a Good Idea |
105 Iran Tries the Insanity Defence |
106 Anthropomorphism |
107 On Loyalty |
108 7. Settlements |
109 Settlements |
110 A Nuclear-Powered Spaceship! |
111 David Kay |
112 What Caused This Death |
113 Ashamed to be Pro-American |
114 What will be the outcome of the Middle East Road Map to Peace |
115 A New Poll! Vote Now! |
116 Against the Legitimacy of the Iranian Regime |
117 Peter Snow Has Never Seen The Simpsons |
119 Someone Regrets the Passing of Saddam |
120 Why We Use the Word ‘Idiotarian’ |
121 8. The Yom Kippur War |
122 The Yom Kippur War |
123 Subdued Reactions to the Iranian Protests |
124 Anti-Semitism Watch- European Union, Malaysia |
125 Embryology Authority Runs Amok, Tries to Kill Child |
126 “What The World Thinks” |
127 It Takes All Sorts |
128 9. The Rise of the PLO |
129 The Rise of the PLO |
130 More Significant Than a Smoking Gun |
131 Shame On You, Sci Fi Channel |
133 Silly Holy Man |
134 Elegance Against Ignorance |
136 Happy America Day |
137 Announcing a New Blog_ Taking Children Seriously (The TCS Blog) |
138 Slavery |
139 10- ... And Then the World Changed |
140 ...And Then The World Changed |
142 Allied Complicity in the Holocaust |
143 What Was Found First |
144 Where to Find The Carnival of The Vanities |
145 ‘villepinism’ |
146 Pre-Empting Pre-Emption |
147 In a Nearby Universe- EU Drops Cuba Sanctions |
148 A new word for “idiotarian” |
149 A New Word For “Idiotarian” |
150 Oliver Kamm |
151 Anti-Life |
152 Further Thoughts on the Death Penalty |
153 Piracy |
154 The Twilight of the Villepinist Libertarians |
156 The Line Between Villepinism and Evil |
157 Discussion on Rantburg.com |
158 About Korea |
159 Sullivan Inflicts Collateral Damage |
160 Cool Down, Folks |
161 Euro Gerrymandering |
162 Idiotarian No Longer |
163 Khomeini in Exile |
164 World Class Hypocrisy |
165 Limbaugh v Arnie - We Tentatively Endorse Arnie |
166 Conspiracy Theories – 1- The Basics |
167 Excellent Points, Appalling Metaphors |
168 Open Letter |
169 BBC Sexes up Another Story |
170 We're Doomed, Doomed I Tell You! |
171 Conspiracy Theories – 2- Lying About Motives |
172 What Is Wrong With These People |
173 Mark Steyn On The Weather |
175 Eric Hobsbawm Pushes the Envelope |
176 Conspiracy Theories – 3- Unseen Events |
177 Anti-Semitism Today |
178 Wolfowitz on the War Against Terror |
179 The Most Appropriate Thing Ever |
180 Of Inquiries |
181 Is There A Diabetes Epidemic |
182 Hatred |
183 Did They Cheer Yesterday As Well |
184 2003-09-11 |
185 The Man Who Should Be Prime Minister |
186 Congratulations |
187 Conspiracy Theories |
188 In a Nearby Universe... |
189 “This Game of Legitimizing Mr. Arafat” |
190 How Cosy Is The Iron Security Blanket |
191 Amanpour Insists the Sky is Green |
192 A Spy at Guantanamo Bay |
193 Bad v Worse |
194 What Are Iran's Missiles For |
195 Where We Oppose US Foreign Policy |
196 Villepin Demands |
197 The David Kelly Affair |
198 One What |
199 Read The Report |
200 Russian Academy of Sciences Bitchslaps Environmental Movement |
201 Horrors |
202 CNN's Mission Accomplished |
203 Nobel Peace Prize for Saddam |
204 Nobel Peace Prize Deserved |
205 Three Threats |
206 Update to Nobel Prize Story |
207 Tim Starr Replies to Dean Ahmad |
208 Who “Invented Human Rights” And For What Purpose |
209 Arms Control- What Not To Do |
210 E. Nough on Bush |
211 An Amusing Musing on Epistemology |
212 Finding Hidden Weapons in Iraq |
213 Silliness |
214 Terrorist Lacks Credibility |
215 Reluctant Experts |
216 “The Most Important Task for Liberals Today” |
217 Cuban Irony |
218 Why Does the BBC Make These Little ‘Mistakes’ |
219 Government Offices Full of Monkeys |
220 It Really Is Happening Again |
221 President Bush Knows |
222 BBC Tells Truth about Arafat |
223 BBC Does Something Right – Again |
224 Curiosity Provides Some Answers |
225 Oliver Kamm Takes Down… |
226 An Allegation That Cannot Rationally Be Made Twice. |
227 Welcome, President Bush |
228 Advice On Failure From An Expert |
230 Carnival of the Vanities 62 |
232 The Brownshirts Of Our Time |
233 Richard Dawkins, George W. Bush, and Morality |
234 Great Posts That Weren't In The Carnival |
235 What Are They Trying To Do |
236 Room For Improvement |
237 Appeasement Doublethink |
238 Another Ungentlemanly Act |
239 Persona Non Grata |
240 Religion Re-Established |
241 Dishonest Reporting Awards |
242 Thinking About Thinking About Thinking |
243 Is France In Serious Trouble |
244 Environmentalism – The Dismal Religion |
245 Our Conspiracy Theory |
246 Proportional Nonsense |
247 Cuban Outrage |
248 Brazilian Outrage |
249 Glenn Tells It Like It Is |
250 Slightly Martian |
251 Slightly Martian Musings |
252 In a Nearby Universe_ BBC _Regrets_ Anti-Kilroy Outburst |
253 Comprehensive Analysis of the Golan Heights Issue |
254 On Fake Diseases |
255 “Human Beings Are Headed Into The Cosmos” |
256 Socialism Without The Middle Man |
257 Mocking Rachel Corrie |
258 Conspiracy Theories In The Mainstream |
259 Evil In The Mainstream |
260 The BBC Is Tacky |
261 Not Fit To Govern |
262 What He Said |
263 Thuggery Defeats Science |
264 Straws In The Wind |
265 Gas Chambers in North Korean Camps |
266 Still Too Lenient With The BBC |
267 In A Nearby Universe- Saddam Turns Other Cheek To Iranian Nukes |
268 What Has The Grand Mufti Denounced |
269 Who Is The Liar |
270 “I Have tears In My Eyes” |
271 Immoral Outrage |
272 Gulf War II Syndrome |
273 Rumour Of A Momentous Development In Iran |
274 Tonge Descends Further |
275 Islamism, Lunatic Conspiracy Theories, And Death |
276 Eco-Loony Feeding Frenzy In The Press |
277 Tonge Tongue-Lashed |
278 Jeanie Kennedy's Description of Daniel Pipes's Talk |
281 Everything On The World (Oldest to Most Recent) |
282 Everything on The World |
283 The World Classics |
284 Saddam's Weapons Of Mass Destruction – The Issue Won't Go Away |
285 Dying For A Fad |
286 An Egyptian Undertaking |
287 Two Kinds Of Spaniard |
288 1976 – The Best Year Ever |
289 Conspiracy Theories – 4- Collectivism |
290 Buy Microsoft! |
291 The Many Other Wheelchairs, And Related Matters |
292 A Meaningless Death In An Evil Cause |
293 Iran- Get It, Before It Gets You |
294 A Reporter Fails To Apologise |
295 Spain Gets War |
296 Hans Blix's Allegiance |
297 In A Nearby Universe- Japan May Withdraw From Iraq |
298 Nuclear Dis-Argument |
299 Tolerating The Intolerable |
300 Captain Euro |
301 Not A “Whistleblower” |
302 The ‘Oil For Food’ Scandal |
303 Greg Dyke Is Unrepentant |
304 Photoblogging |
305 European Union – The Mask Slips |
306 Who Knows What They Believe |
307 You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of |
308 Some Working Definitions For The Twenty-First Century |
309 The Truth Is… |
310 A Veiled Threat |
311 Oliver Kamm And The Missing Argument |
312 A Fork In The Road |
313 The Elephant In The Room |
314 Can I Quote Me On That |
315 Another Elephant In The Room |
316 Come-As-You-Are Wars |
317 Lying Press |
318 Let's Face it |
319 But The Damage Is Done |
320 A Simile |
321 Mainstream Antisemitism |
322 Where The Freedom Is |
323 Moore, Again |
324 339 |
325 Gore Is No Good |
326 Euro-Evil |
327 Den Beste for President |
328 The Attributes Of A Saint |
329 Ronald Reagan RIP |
330 Of Mice And Men |
331 The Pro-Death Lobby |
332 Gay Marriage |
333 There Is No Honour In Victimhood |
334 Vote No To The New EU Constitution |
335 The UN And The Rule Of Law |
336 Royal Navy Gives Credence To Psychics |
337 Telling The Truth About The Middle East |
338 Proportional Representation In Iraq |
339 Two Clashes Of Cultures |
340 Solidarity With Terror |
341 Conspiracy Theories Kill And Cripple On Schedule |
342 In The Tradition Of Roosevelt |
343 Released Guantanamo Detainees Return To Battle |
344 International Money Fountain |
345 Insane Conspiracy Theories In Influential Circles |
346 Worth Achieving At Any Cost |
347 Nothing There To Vote For |
348 Mad vs Bad |
349 John Kerry Doesn't Get It |
350 The Olympics- A Celebration Of What |
351 Academic Study Lets Wal-Mart Off Far Too Lightly |
352 Who Do They Think Joe Lieberman Is |
353 Water Alarm |
354 Al Quaeda's Candidate |
355 Greek Civilisation |
356 Our 2¢ Worth On Kerry's Christmas In Cambodia |
357 E. Nough Ought To Be A Bush Speechwriter |
358 Terrorism In Support Of Evil In Nepal |
359 “All You Need To Know” |
360 Was John Kerry Ordered Illegally Into Cambodia |
361 New Poll- Was John Kerry Ordered Illegally Into Cambodia |
362 In A Parallel Universe – Vote For John Kerry! |
363 They Should Keep Their Fantasies At Home |
364 HonestReporting Makes Progress On The T-Word |
365 The Baffled French |
366 The War Against Conspiracy Theories |
367 Don't They Know There's A War On |
368 No Right To Self-Determination |
369 The Last Consequences of Rathergate |
370 Death and Tax Evasion |
371 No To Chechen Independence For The Foreseeable Future |
373 What Is The Foreign Office Good For |
374 Middle-East Experts |
375 Brokaw, Jennings Rally Round Rather |
376 ‘Deterrence’ by Bill Whittle |
377 Ishmael Khaldi |
378 The Mosque |
379 And Now He's Dead |
380 Another Faked Grade Scandal |
381 Tutorial |
382 An Agonising Choice |
383 Reuters Makes Up Israeli History |
384 A New Blasphemy Law |
385 Open Letter To Libertarians |
386 Ducking And Weaving |
387 Walter Cronkite, Conspiracy Theorist |
388 No Apology |
389 Politicised Junk Published As Medical Research |
390 We Endorse… |
391 Goodbye Colin |
393 George W. Bush – Secular Hero |
394 Good Riddance |
395 An Early Test |
396 White Poppies |
397 John Kerry, Cambodia, And Iraq |
398 Civil Liberties And Politicians |
399 Secular-Religious Insanity In Education |
400 Three Links About Middle-Eastern Death Cults |
401 Natan Sharansky On Democracy And Peace |
402 Drupal add-ons |
403 Conspiracy Theories About Controlling Democracies |
404 Democracy |
405 Mauritania's Best Kept Secret |
406 Hurray For The French Government! |
407 Peace And Genocide |
408 Why Doesn't Jimmy Walter Take Jimmy Walter Seriously |
409 The Joy Of Giving |
410 Democracy – Part 1- Vox Populi Vox Dei |
411 Pest-Powered Robots |
412 There Are Very Few Natural Disasters Nowadays |
413 Democracy – Part 2- The Dependent Leader |
414 The Memos Are Fakes❢ |
415 Democracy – Part 3- Mediocracy |
416 The Secular Inaugural |
417 Letting Theories Die Instead of People |
417 The Secular Inaugural |
418 “Let the remaining tyrants of the world learn the lesson from this day” |
420 A Time Bomb |
421 The Media's Anti-Israel Two-Step |
422 The Media Are not ‘Orwellian’ |
423 Science And Superstition |
424 Scientism Watch – Fishy Feelings 2 |
425 Conspiracy Theories In The Mainstream 2 |
426 Children's Crusade |
427 Good Evil and Howard Dean |
428 Steven Den Beste Has Posted |
429 Discrimination As Anti-Discrimination |
430 Political Correctness Fiddles While The World Burns |
431 Two Hands, One Mouth |
432 EU Turkeys Promise To Be Impartial About Christmas |
433 The Poverty Of Leftism- Arguments From The Sewers |
434 Conspiracy Theories – 5 -- Paranoia As Faith |
435 Vote Labour! |
436 Not A Great Man |
437 France Graduates From Weasel To Enemy |
438 Environmentalism Is Tyranny |
439 Support Tony Blair! |
440 Election Consolations |
441 Trade Justice For What |
442 Sanctuary |
443 No Magic |
444 No Excuses |
445 Democracy, Luxembourg Style |
446 Non! |
447 2003 And All That |
448 Don't Ask, Don't Discriminate |
449 Impending Holocaust Watch |
450 Not Democracy |
451 What's Worse Than Banning Intolerant Speech |
452 Calill And The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company, Redux |
453 The Dark Logic Of Moral Equivalence |
454 Not Just Bystanders |
455 The Difference |
456 Two Karls |
457 And Who Shall Guard The Guardians |
458 The Future Of Elian Gonzalez |
459 The Pope Meant It |
460 Conspiracy Theories – 6- Theories That Are Merely False |
461 A Photo-Fisking |
462 President Bush Takes ‘Intelligent Design’ Seriously |
463 To Link Once To A Holocaust-Denying Web Site May Be Regarded As A Misfortune. To Do It Twice Looks Like Carelessness |
464 The New Rosa Parks |
465 Trust |
466 Human Beings Are People, Not Wildlife |
467 Funny Because They're True |
468 ‘Pallywood’ And Other Things You Ought To Know About |
469 Can The United States Survive This Catastrophe |
470 Tribes |
471 Amnesty International Versus Freedom |
472 …Then Only Criminals Will Have Guns |
473 Affirming Life |
474 Pallywood, The Movie |
475 Ignorance |
476 The German Electorate Refused |
477 Not like this! |
478 Not Vietnam |
479 Nothing Less Than Complete Victory |
480 Last Chance To Avoid Nuclear War |
481 Politics and Principles 1 - Politics Without Principles |
482 Vive Canda Libre |
483 Political Role of Psychiatry |
484 Denazification Today |
485 Data Never Tell A Story |
486 Impending Holocaust Watch – Ahmadinejad, The Genocidal Realist |
487 BBC Claims That Its Role Is To Indoctrinate Children With Political Propaganda |
488 Israeli Arabs To Vote Zionist At The Next Election |
489 Ritual Torture |
490 Cameron For Slavery |
491 Deterrence |
492 Leftist Bias Of RIght-Wing Bloggers |
493 Impending Holocaust Watch |
494 Iran's Last Chance |
495 Britain Fails The Town Square Test |
496 A Coincidence |
498 Who Tortured The Host Who Are The Enemies Of Islam |
499 Trying Tyrants |
500 Freed, Any The Wiser |
501 Global Warming Warning |
502 More About The Ungentlemanly Act |
503 More Optimism Needed |
504 Mixing Incompatible Scare Stories |
505 Iranian Noose Tightens |
506 Mixing Incompatible Atrocity Stories |
507 An Uncanny Resemblance |
508 A Black And White Issue |
509 ID Cards and Security |
510 Iran Would Use The Weapons It Isn't Making |
511 Those North Korean Missiles |
512 Doesn't Want To Know |
513 Various Missiles, Condi, And The Danger Of Moral Prevarication |
514 The EU, Human Stem Cells, And Poodles |
515 What Shall I Compare Thee To Now |
516 Not Mere Rhetoric |
517 Tactics |
518 Britain And The Town Square Test |
520 The Rising Tide Of Insanity |
521 Human Rights in the Cuase of Tyranny -- Who is to Blame |
522 The Problem Is The Spin |
523 Did President George W Bush's Invasion Of Iraq Contribute To Causing The 9-11 Attack |
524 Poll On The Cause Of The 9-11 Attack |
525 A Victory For Pro-DDT Campaigners |
526 A Reflection On The Town Square Test |
527 ‘Software Piracy’ Is Not Theft |
528 Ecological Footprints |
529 Questions For The Iraq Study Group To Study |
530 Christians in the Middle East |
531 Microsoft Again |
532 Hounded by Animal Rights Activists |
533 The Sailors And The Holocaust |
534 Joe Republican and a Better World |
535 Watered Down Nonsense |
536 Who Will Blame The Blamers |
537 The Backlight is On, But Nobody's Home |
538 Ignorance |
539 Setting The World To Rights Is On A Break |
540 Did the French Revolution influence the American Revolution |