How philosopher Peter Singer came to appreciate billionaires
The controversial academic talks about philanthropy, the state of politics, Hawthorn’s dire season, and the Melbourne skier who helped his parents escape Nazis.
“I don’t see political figures of the stature of Whitlam, or Hawke or Gareth Evans,” says controversial philosopher Peter Singer. Wayne Taylor
Less than a minute after meeting Peter Singer, the notorious philosopher who has advocated infanticide and converted generations of vegetarians, he has cornered me in an ethical bind.
We meet for lunch at Lentil as Anything in Melbourne’s St Kilda, the original of a four-outlet chain of meat-free restaurants where diners choose how much to pay.
