Philosophy
Gazing out of the abyss
How to live, in spite of everything
A love letter to hard-won wisdom
They paid the bills through the tutorials that trained the next generation
The new treason of the intellectuals
Julien Benda is as relevant today as he was in 1927
AI and the disintegrating imagination
ChatGTP will change our relationship with writing
Can science hold all the answers?
Revisiting the thinkers who challenged the scientific method’s claims to have a monopoly on the truth and offer privileged access to reality
The curious cult of the friend of fascism
Ayn Rand’s vile philosophy was one of the crudest ever to be taken seriously, but attracts the devotion of fundamentalists for whom she could do no wrong
Among the deathworks
On culturing culture
Let’s get teleological
Another way to look at morality and law
Against mere negativity
Politics needs a vision of the Good
For Hume the bell tolls
Civil debate? A miracle
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
