...quite difficult. As Vogue’s favourite philosopher, Amia Srinivasan, notes this month in the London Review of Books, many Right-wingers seem to assert the value of free speech, mainly or even only to...
...ancient philosopher or a monk. • Immortal. The university has always been concerned with learning for its own sake: and this is where we contribute to our civilisation and to...
In an excellent interview with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers, political philosopher John Gray questions the effectiveness of current climate policies, suggesting they were implemented prematurely and lacked the necessary technology and...
...but a compact between different communities, bound together by mutual responsibility. Originally confined to academic circles, its first leading lights were suitably worthy: Baron Maurice Glasman, the philosopher Philip Blond,...
...Christian minister and Lockdown Sceptics reader Jamie Franklin (who runs the Irreverend podcast) has penned a moving reflection on the many losses of lockdown and the miserable new normal. I...
...of students’ choosing. Hour-long tirades, with only your Panopto reflection for your guide, without even commonplace reference points to scaffold the event – the time of day, the weather outside,...
...on the side of the sceptics. After all, Smith’s closest friend was the arch-sceptic philosopher David Hume. Smith fought against orthodox beliefs and took a particularly dim view of tenured...
...HART, asks in the Critic if lockdowns and social distancing have enabled more dangerous virus variants to thrive “You can’t measure the distress of lockdown, so it’s ignored” – Philosopher...
...some written reflection. The title I have used above is De Excidio Britanniae, which was the title of the first book written about Britain: a Latin phrase which means, aptly...
...lovely daffodil: a little phrase which offers some amusement or opportunity for reflection. I have noticed two of these already. Both were references to philosophers. You may recall that Vallance...
