Issues
Issue 175: August/September 2026
EDITORIAL
Mental Continental
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: August/September 2026
Jobs bonanza as AI companies recruit philosophers • Researchers learn to ‘unwrap’ charred philosophy scrolls from Herculaneum — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
WAR
Just War Theory
Keith Tidman thinks the world’s bristling arsenals and proneness to wars makes it all the more urgent.
Between Missiles & Morality
AmirAli Maleki considers Hart, al-Farabi, and the Puzzled Man in wartime.
On War, Kabbalah & Collateral Damage
Anton Koslov takes a concept from the Kabbalah to understand the nature of war.
CONTINENTALS
Hustle Culture & the Illusion of Freedom
Daneyal Afaqui critiques modern work culture, with input from Theodor Adorno.
Simone Weil & Animal Suffering
Michela Dianetti & Chiara Li Mandri say non-human beings don’t need to be persons for us to care about them. Simone Weil offers another way.
Why Classical Liberals Should Embrace Foucault
Muzainy Shahiefisally argues that Foucault really is on the side of freedom.
The Strength of Quiet Rebellion
T.S. Carney on Ernst Jünger and internal sovereignty.
Fun With Deleuze & Guattari
D.E. Tarkington offers some cool conceptual tricks to impress your friends at parties.
ARTICLES
What is Analytic Philosophy?
Alexander Jeuk analyses philosophical analysis with a philosophical eye.
Boredom
Cheryl Fok searches for the source, and its relief.
What is Human Experience?: Psychology vs Philosophy
Ayten Nevzat watches philosophy give birth to a science.
What’s A Good 1000-Year Plan?
Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included.
Julian the Apostate (331-363)
Eli Sclar reports on a weaponizer of tolerance.
INTERVIEWS
Ulrich Metschl
Ulrich Metschl is an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Thiago Pinho talks with him about philosophical collaborations.
LETTERS
Letters
Living & Dead Letters • Is Antinatalism Misogynistic? • Is This The End? • Listening To The Enemy • Will to Power Over The Will to Power • Islamic Issues • Critical Habermas • Sincere Hypocrisy • Tallis’s Ghost Stories
COLUMNS
Martin Heidegger & the Evaporation of Freedom
Raymond Tallis watches freedom disappear in a puff of Heideggerian smoke.
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
by Terence Green
Philosophical Power Couples
by Matt Qvortrup
Cicero & the Value of Skepticism
Massimo Pigliucci is not skeptical about skepticism itself.
REVIEWS
The Diversity of Morals by Steven Lukes
Philip Badger considers Steven Lukes’ views about the diversity of morality.
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
Peter Benson marvels at Carlo Rovelli’s relational quantum theory.
Wuthering Heights
Michael Au-Mullaney on K.E. Løgstrup on love.
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza
Hilarius Bogbinder looks at the book that got Baruch Spinoza barred from his synagogue.
FICTION
The Simulacrum Conceals, or Time Beguiles?
by Shivangi Mishra
The Day of Ashes
Adam Farnsworth visits a future that reveres the philosophy of Georges Bataille.
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Just Desserts
by Juno Browning
Jon Carter’s Cartoon
by Jon Carter
Guto Dias’ Cartoon
by Guto Dias