Unthinkable: Toxic positivity may be exacerbating a sense that we’re losing in life

Unthinkable: Irish missionaries have left an example of positive evangelisation, even if we are seeing the last of them

Unthinkable: In an era when crooks and despots cling to power at all costs, Ireland could model a different type of democracy by picking a president at random

Unthinkable: To create a shared future on this island, and internationally, we must move beyond uncritically celebrating the actions of any particular tribe

Self-help books spoon-feed us ‘lessons for life’. But are we inspired to ask better questions?

Unthinkable: Moral superiority in Ireland over ‘populist’ uprisings in the US and UK ignores how we’ve become slaves to global capital

Unthinkable: Hope is not a strategy when it comes to tackling urgent challenges like climate change

Unthinkable: We should think more about the consequences of actions and less about perceived character flaws in others

Unthinkable: Socrates said immorality is the result of ignorance - Trump is proof of that

Unthinkable: Various philosophers advocate ‘attaining a deep awareness of death’s possibility at any moment’

Unthinkable: There may be lessons from Northern Ireland in responding to the horrors of the Middle East

Unthinkable: Ireland has been transformed economically, but the sense that everything could go pear-shaped overnight remains

Unthinkable: Philosopher David Berman claims to have unearthed ‘evidence’ for believing in an afterlife

Unthinkable: Psychoanalysis suggests each one of us has a ‘death drive’, calling us to self-destruction

Unthinkable: As technology advances, the risk of drawing over-simplistic conclusions from statistics will grow