If someone can be cancelled, someone can be uncancelled. Let’s start with Arthur Griffith

Unthinkable: Are we losing the ability to judge historical figures fairly?

Can you suspend belief in everything? An intellectual challenge

Unthinkable: Phenomenology may make your head hurt but it’s trying ‘to teach us to see again’

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

Outrageous to have hundreds of empty buildings alongside a shortage of houses

We live in a bifurcated reality, with inconsistent ways of looking at what a house is

Gothic and Grimm: The joys of fairytale Marburg

An hour from Frankfurt, the picturesque town of Marburg, with its steep, cobbled streets and links to the Brothers Grimm, is brimming with personality

Academics must take action to save colleges from market’s incursion

Opinion: Intensive modern education system should look to ‘slow’ model of learning

Ever get home from holiday to think ‘My house is really rather nice’?

After a holiday you can, for a time, enjoy your home as if it were brand new to you

Unthinkable: Is ‘living in the now’ such a good idea?

The mindfulness industry tells us to ‘be in the present’ but is that meaningful or desirable, asks philosopher Seán Enda Power

Is Irish literature too local to have philosophical heft?

In broader European and American literature, it is easier to find genuine marriages of philosophy and fiction

Unthinkable: Does innovation always mean improvement?

What, if any, responsibilities go along with the freedom to research?

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