General Articles

What’s So Bad About Smugness?

Emrys Westacott asks whether it really is a terrible moral failing.
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018]

The Rise of the Intelligent Authors

Lochlan Bloom wonders what writers will do when computers become better writers than humans.
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018]

Santa Claus & the Problem of Evil

Jimmy Alfonso Licon engages in a little Santodicy for Christmas.
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018]

Kant & The Human Subject

Brian Morris compares the ways Kant’s question “What is the human being?” has been answered by philosophers and anthropologists.
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018]

Defending Humanistic Reasoning

Paul Giladi, Alexis Papazoglou, & Giuseppina D’Oro say we need to recognise that science and the humanities are asking and answering different questions.
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018]

Seeing the Future in the Present Past

Siobhan Lyons perceives the flow of history in terms of organic growth and decay.
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018]

How Can I Know Right From Wrong?

The following responses to this basic ethical question each win a random book.
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018]

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

In Thoreau’s bicentenary, Martin Jenkins looks at the famous American eccentric.
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018]

How Cubism Tried To Create A New Language

Stuart Greenstreet wonders why Cubist communication failed to catch on.
[Issue 122: October/November 2017]

Democracy & the Unreasonable: Lessons from Rawls

Francisco Mejia Uribe asks if democracy can overcome fundamentalism.
[Issue 122: October/November 2017]

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