Maeve Higgins: ‘Irish people are treated as some kind of miracle when they do well abroad’
The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women
Hannah Arendt
Stop to think, and think to be happy: Hannah Arendt’s credo for life
Unthinkable: Philosopher born this day 115 years ago believed that politics should be joyous
‘You might say that I am a student of evil’
Forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead explores our ‘shadow side’
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Hannah Arendt and the meaning of evil
Unthinkable: Calling something evil is not a licence to shut down debate
The forgotten women in philosophy: time to set the record straight
Unthinkable: The Philosopher Queens originated from ‘a disheartening trip to the local bookshop’
Truth as commodity: History warns us to watch out in wake of Covid-19 vaccine
After Weimar-like exuberance will come Covid-19 scapegoating and ongoing lies
Ten philosophers to help us through the coronavirus crisis
Unthinkable: Sartre and Schopenhauer make the list but Peig Sayers deserves inclusion too
Why Nietzsche wouldn't go near social media
Unthinkable: Technology is turning us into ‘passive nihilists’, says philosopher Nolen Gertz
The Irish Times view on the China Cables: Xinjiang’s nightmare
The savagery that leaps from these cables has no place in the modern world. If increasing our dealings with China involves having to hold our noses to this sort of outrage, then that’s too high a price
The perfect office worker’s capacity for evil
This book seeks to reflect on the modern phenomenon of impersonal, bureaucratic murder.
Decay of English language makes it perfect for lying
Political rhetoric of our time is conditioned by insult and hardly concealed violence
Paul Mason: The manifesto of a Marxist snowflake
Resist the ‘mass folk religion of fatalism’, says the former Newsnight economics editor
Is technology to blame for spread of ‘unjoined-up thinking’?
Social media ‘invites us to be so many people at once’, says UCC academic Fiachra Long
War of Independence seen as Catholic war on Protestants
Rite & Reason: Nationalist Ireland almost universally condemned the Soloheadbeg killings as murder
100 books by women you have to read
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Why we need ‘community philosophy’
Unthinkable: Anyone can be a philosopher – if you’re open-minded enough
Philosophy in the classroom: ‘It’s okay not to find an exact answer’
Young Philosopher Awards seeks to recognise critical thinking and communication skills
How Putin and Trump have eroded truth and rule of law
Timothy Snyder traces our terrifying new totalitarianism to blurring of fact and fiction
Maureen Dowd: How Trump is making America great again
The president has breathed new life into everything from feminism to Senate hearings
Joe Humphreys: Stop kidding yourself, you have no human rights
Next time you bleat about your right to something think about what’s being done in your name in the Mediterranean
Ten things we learned at the Theatre of Change Symposium
Tackling malevolent cupcakes, mutant lesbians and “the man problem” at the Abbey
Migrant crisis: It’s a question of human rights – not charity
‘Another EU summit is not required to resolve this situation, and the Irish Government does not need to wait for further requests for assistance’
Unthinkable: Why should the State fund universities?
Even non-students benefit from higher education, argues Prof Thomas Docherty
Women on the verge of a tumultuous showdown: Women in Dark Times, by Jacqueline Rose
Review: profiles of Rosa Luxemburg, Marilyn Monroe and Charlotte Salomon – or feminism as extended psychoanalysis
Martin Amis: ‘How can one claim to be human without looking at what we have done?’
Martin Amis is a deeply moral writer with a Swiftian vigour. In his latest novel, ‘The Zone of Interest’, he returns to the story of the Nazi death camps
When it comes to human rights, we want duty-free
Human rights are brought ‘into disrepute by trying constantly to inflate all of them’, says Onora O’Neill
Unthinkable: Which ‘golden rule’ of ethics is best, the Christian or Confucian?
The rule of reciprocity can be found in all major religions, but with a different emphasis
Books in the bath, dancing from Dusk till dawn and other Kilkenny attractions
The Taming of the Shrew is a ghastly play but, like much else at Kilkenny Arts Festival, it’s handled with wit and made wonderful
Sign us up: the world of Bob and Roberta
The visual art of Bob and Roberta Smith – aka Patrick Brill – is political, humorous and all about empowering the spectator
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