Artwork © Sam Knowles Recently, I was in northern Kenya, watching a reticulated giraffe as it chewed carefully at the soft leaves between...

There are some popular photographic images of Bertrand Russell that come to mind when we hear his name. In them Russell smiles directly...

You are not an algorithm. Neither am I. And yet we open our lives up to being at least partially algorithmised when we acquiesce in a...

The 2016 Democratic presidential primary brought about an unexpected discussion of neoliberalism in US political discourse. The term,...

What do we do when we do philosophy? And what should we do? What method in philosophy is likely to resolve puzzles and lead to reliable,...

The phrase ‘doing philosophy’ has resonated with me since I was fifteen. I used to read a BBC magazine’s weekly transcripts of radio...

The cryptic inscription on the tomb of the French social theorist Charles Fourier reads ‘Attractions are Proportional to Destinies.’ What...

Fascism is often dismissed as a political phenomenon confined to twentieth-century Europe, but this assumption obscures its enduring ideological structure. Like democracy, fascism abstracts from local history and reappears under diverse conditions, organized around exclusionary nationalism, status grievance, and authoritarian leadership. Treating fascism as merely historical is not only mistaken, it weakens our capacity to recognize and resist its contemporary forms.

Identities and identity politics are steeped in controversy. Politicians and pundits are criticizing students and those on the left for...

There are so many different ways we find ourselves enmeshed in the problem of difference. It’s a political problem, when nations or...

​ ‘The use of philosophy’, wrote J.M.E. McTaggart (1866-1925), ‘lies not in being deeper than science, but in being truer than...