There are books that one should never give to depressed friends. David Benatar’s “The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions” is one. Although Mr. Benatar doesn’t want to be one ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. David Benatar wants to stop you from becoming a parent. The South African philosopher believes it is morally wrong to bring babies into ...

A recent event held by the University of Cape Town's Palestine Solidarity Forum elicited a protest from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD). This resulted in a response from UCT PSF.

David Benatar reflects on his withdrawal as Bioethics lecturer last year, writing that the medical faculty instead of dealing with issues of bullying he had raised, acted against him, thereby ...

It is hard to overestimate the impact of the French student uprisings of May 1968 on the philosophy of the so-called post-68 generation, that group of politically awakened academics that included, ...

Leslie London is as strident as he is wrong (“Benatar’s defence of human shield claims relies on IDF propaganda,” January 22). Some, but not all, of this evidence comes from the Israel Defence Forces ...

David Benatar is probably the most important philosophical pessimist active today. He has presented many original and challenging arguments for life's badness. In this and some ensuing posts I’ll ...

“Life is misery, and it would have been better not to have been born. But who is so lucky? Scarcely one in a hundred thousand.” This Jewish witticism, (first quoted by Freud,) is the epigraph of David ...

One of the main arguments against corporal punishment is that it sends the wrong message, which is that it is permissible to solve our problems with violence. In a previous post, I considered other ...