Tag: "culture & society"

Armistice Day Reflections

Bob Sharpe asks what it is to die for one’s country.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: War]

Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis is a classic thanks to its timeless warning about the perils of technological mastery without social justice, says Scott O’Reilly.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Films]

Uncertainty and Public Policy

Richard Taylor tells us why public policies always go wrong…
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Articles]

What’s On Your Mind?

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Editorial]

Heretics!

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Editorial]

The True Believer Revisited

Tim Madigan on September 11th and on a longshoreman who understood the psychology of mass movements.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002: Articles]

Philosophy & Disability: an overview

Anita Silvers describes a booming area of philosophical enquiry and explains how considering the perspectives of the disabled can help philosophy in general.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Articles]

The Injustice of Punitive Justice

We take their money, their freedom, sometimes their lives, but opinions differ over exactly what we are trying to achieve, how we should go about it and what justifies it anyway. Jane Forsey on the punishment of criminals.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Crime & Punishment]

More Praise for Idleness

Bertrand Russell argued that the time spent working by an average person should be drastically reduced, work being an overrated virtue. Paul Western believes that ‘idleness’ is still not valued highly enough.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000: Articles]

Film Comedy

What became of the raucous laughter and inspired slapstick anarchism of the early silent comedies? Our regular film commentator Thomas Wartenberg traces the trajectory of film comedy from laughter to romance.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000: Films]

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