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Can AI Teach Our Grandmothers To Suck Eggs?

Louis Tempany wonders whether the problem is with the machines or with us.
[Issue 170: October/November 2025]

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

John P. Irish considers some principles of history through the history of a historian.
[Issue 170: October/November 2025]

The Centennial of the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial

Tim Madigan on the creation and the evolution of a legend.
[Issue 169: August/September 2025]

A Crisis of Attention

Paul Doolan attends to our culture of attention demanding.
[Issue 169: August/September 2025]

Weltschmerz and the World

Ian James Kidd takes a realistic and global view of the history of pessimism.
[Issue 169: August/September 2025]

Following the sad news of Alasdair MacIntyre’s death recently, AmirAli Maleki argues that he and Miskawayh al-Razi shared a similarly Aristotelian vision of the way to live.
[Issue 169: August/September 2025]

What Makes A Work Of Art Great?

Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to all the entrants not included.
[Issue 169: August/September 2025]

Henry Odera Oruka (1944-1995)

Robin Attfield looks at the life of a dedicated promoter of African philosophy.
[Issue 169: August/September 2025]

Welcome to the Civilization of the Liar’s Paradox

Slavoj Žižek uncovers political paradoxes of lying.
[Issue 168: June/July 2025]

What Simone de Beauvoir Got – And Didn’t Get – About Motherhood

Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent.
[Issue 168: June/July 2025]

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