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
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Ethics Moral grandstanding: there’s a lot of it about, all of it bad Justin Tosi & Brandon Warmke
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/War & Conflict Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles Cathal J Nolan
volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Values & Beliefs ‘Free speech’ is a blunt instrument. Let’s break it up Robert Simpson
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Fairness & Equality Hierarchy is either strictly constrained or it is indefensible Philip Pettit
volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Political Philosophy Simone de Beauvoir’s political philosophy resonates today Skye C Cleary
volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/History of Ideas How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free Sam Dresser
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Political Philosophy Free speech debates are more than ‘radicals’ vs ‘liberals’ Eric Heinze
volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Ethics There’s no moral difference between a wall and a migrant visa Hrishikesh Joshi
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Political Philosophy Can liberal values be absolute? Or is that a contradiction? Max Hayward
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Political Philosophy Bruno the brave For anyone who dares to voice dangerous ideas and risk imprisonment or exile, Giordano Bruno remains a hero Stephanie Merritt
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Cultures & Languages How the end of democracy made the Greeks more polite Eleanor Dickey
Essay/Politics & Government The English question Little England may have undone Great Britain. Will a nation of dark fascism or one of green and pleasant lands emerge? Paul Harris
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Values & Beliefs Beyond anger Anger is the emotion that has come to saturate our politics and culture. Philosophy can help us out of this dark vortex Martha C Nussbaum