"To see civil disobedience like an activist is to see civil disobedience as a decolonizing praxis."

"In Pinker’s tale the rational, technocratic, liberal middle is a kind of virtuous and beleaguered minority."

Gregg Caruso’s Rejecting Retributivism is a resolute and wide-ranging book. Since I cannot address all the material in it that deserves...

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Does being loving, whether it’s as a partner, a child or a parent, require truthfulness at all times? And if...

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska When two things are distinct from each other, what makes them distinct? An odd question, perhaps, but one...

Homo sapiens are by nature a social species. Sociality – indeed, what biologists call ultrasociality – is built in to human nature. There...

It’s the 20th year of the century. The world is in chaos: Europe is knitted together by financial obligations that seem to benefit few...

“I was writing about what it means not to have a voice and making the case for the redistribution of that power.” – Rebecca Solnit ​...

Humans are the only mortal creatures – this is a doctrine that Hannah Arendt found in the pre-Socratic Greeks. In their vision, the gods...

Luca Upper Many philosophers are sceptical of “philosophy as self-help” type books, possibly because they resent having to stand between...

In a 2016 article on “Philosophy and Ideology,” Amia Srinivasan illuminates the peril of analytic philosophy displacing a politics from...

"Everything is Fine" by Jacques Rival It’s our time. Or so philosophers like to think. Technological and cultural developments over the...

Where, if anywhere, are we to locate the mind? Can it be pinned down like an X on a map? According to a number of highly influential...

What was it that motivated your book on idleness? It was actually an accident that brought me to it. I have always been interested in...

Pixabay Shortly before Love Drugs arrived in the post, I had finished reading two bestselling books by non-philosophers that both...

An alleged UFO seen from a farm near McMinnville, Oregon, 1950. Science History Images/Alamy There’s a church across the road from my...

The reclining Buddha at Bodhi Tataung (Wikimedia Commons) “People search for goodness and try to throw away evil, but they don’t study...