Author: Joseph Millum, Senior Lecturer, Philosophy, University of St Andrews

Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock For many children, the winter holidays centre on a lie. They’re told that every Christmas Eve, a jolly, elderly man visits all the children in the world. He pops down the chimney, leaves gifts (at least for well-behaved children) and then disappears unseen. Meanwhile, parents everywhere raise their children to be honest and fret […]