Tag: "culture & society"

Albert C. Barnes: Cantankerous Freethinker

Tim Madigan ponders the mysteries of friendship.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Food for Thought]

Philosophical Twist

Thomas Wartenberg tells us his hunch about a cunning plan to market DVDs. Is turning epistemology into showbiz a good thing or a bad thing?
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Films]

Slacker

Colin Bartie digs the countercultural theme in Slacker and other films by Richard Linklater.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Films]

The Pornography of Meat by Carol Adams

Lisa Kemmerer agrees with Carol Adams about some of the subliminal assumptions advertisers use to sell their wares.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Books]

Ken Knisely (1957-2005)

George Leaman remembers a friend.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Obituary]

The End of Suffering

Pleasure for the People! Katherine Power considers whether there should be more opiates for the masses (including opium?), but settles for nuts and seeds.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Heresy]

The Prime Directive

A short story about ethics and the Final Frontier, by Alister Browne.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Short Story]

Cities of Refuge

John Mann reviews three books on race, asylum and immigration by Matt Cavanagh, Michael Dummett and Jacques Derrida.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002: Books]

‘The Open Society’ Revisited

Alan Haworth on Karl Popper, his vision of a pragmatic, liberal society, and his assessment of its philosophical enemies.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002: Articles]

The ‘War of Good Against Evil’

Raimond Gaita on racism, religion and the motives of suicide bombers.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: War]

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