Idea/Politics & Government ‘Ketman’ and doublethink: what it costs to comply with tyranny Jacob Mikanowski
Idea/Political Philosophy Democracy is like fun: you can’t set your mind to having it Robert B Talisse
Essay/Political Philosophy Is taxation theft? The assumption that you own the contents of your pay-packet, although almost universal, is demonstrably confused Philip Goff
Essay/Work The quitting economy When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit Ilana Gershon
Idea/Politics & Government Moderation may be the most challenging and rewarding virtue Aurelian Craiutu
Essay/Meaning & the Good Life End-times for humanity Humanity is more technologically powerful than ever before, and yet we feel ourselves to be increasingly fragile. Why? Claire Colebrook
Essay/Political Philosophy Theory from the ruins The Frankfurt school argued that reason is dangerous, mass culture deadening, and the Enlightenment a disaster. Were they right? Stuart Walton
Idea/Ethics Moral grandstanding: there’s a lot of it about, all of it bad Justin Tosi & Brandon Warmke
Idea/Politics & Government How Robert Nozick put a purple prose bomb under analytical philosophy Brad Baranowski
Essay/Political Philosophy Join the party of love Love is not just a feeling given or received, it is an action too. It could be a radical force in politics Max Harris
Essay/History of Ideas What is good rhetoric? Plato said we ought to be suspicious of persuasive speakers and the appeal to emotions. But rhetoric can be a civic good Tushar Irani
Idea/Fairness & Equality Hierarchy is either strictly constrained or it is indefensible Philip Pettit
Essay/Fairness & Equality In defence of hierarchy As a society we have forgotten how to talk about the benefits of hierarchy, expertise and excellence. It's time we remembered Stephen C Angle, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Julian Baggini and others
Essay/Political Philosophy The last hollow laugh Since Francis Fukuyama proclaimed ‘The End of History’ 25 years ago, he has been much maligned. His work now seems prophetic Paul Sagar
Idea/Politics & Government There’s a Green Card-holder at the heart of Greek philosophy David V Johnson
Essay/Political Philosophy The power thinker Original, painstaking, sometimes frustrating and often dazzling. Foucault’s work on power matters now more than ever Colin Koopman
Essay/History The new authoritarians Last century’s dictators wanted to reinvent their subjects as ‘new men’. This century’s strongmen just don’t care. Why? Holly Case
Essay/Politics & Government Fire, hatred and speed! The glamour, bullying and violence of the libertarian alt-Right has a direct political ancestor, and it’s not Nazi Germany Jay Griffiths
Essay/Digital Culture Shame on you Unburdening ourselves online can feel radical and liberating. But is baring and sharing all as emancipatory as it seems? Firmin deBrabander
Idea/Political Philosophy What would Leibniz say about the schisms in Europe today? Maria Rosa Antognazza
Essay/History of Ideas How not to be a chucklehead Saturday mornings with J L Austin in postwar Oxford were a golden time for wordplay, silly jokes and serious philosophy Nakul Krishna