Are electrons real? What is the connection between physics and Buddhism? Is now the time to rehumanise science?Since the Hellenistic period, Eastern philosophies have been an integral part of…
What is managerialism? Why is the meritocracy sliding into technocracy? Does suffering make us seem more pure?We tend to think that today’s progressive politics advances equality through moral…
Is freedom always an absolute good? For freedom to be beneficial and practical, does it need constraining? Are attacks on freedom really the first step to tyranny?From freedom from tyranny and poverty…
Who was the first person to be cool? What connects the civil rights movement and Albert Camus' 'The Rebel'? How has the coopting of black terminology impacted American society more broadly?From James…
Is it truly the beginning of the end of Western dominance? Where did it all go wrong? And is this more than just an upheaval of the status quo?For centuries, Western powers dominated the global order…
Is the populist right opposed to liberalism and the free market? Does this mark a change in what it is to be right-wing, or was it a mistake to see populism as far right in the first place? Or is…
What do voyeurs want? What can the Greeks teach us about love? Why do we pursue those who we now are going to hurt us?Despite our longing for lasting connection, love often falters on the rocks of…
Is the future one where we accept tribalism and conflict as inherent in the human condition, where moral and scientific beliefs based on reason are badges, shaped by class, nation, ethnicity and…
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFew take anarchism and the abandonment of organised government as a viable political goal. Yet in economics,…
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom Newton's laws to E=mc2, we think we have uncovered the secrets of the universe. But some claim these laws evolve…
