The fine art of bullshitting – and why we’re getting better at it
It’s almost 15 years since the Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt published his bestselling book, On Bullshit. “One of the most…
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The drumbeat for war with Iran grows louder despite Trump’s caution
Donald Trump is many things but he is not, it must be acknowledged, the knee-jerk warmonger that many feared he…
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David Wallace-Wells: the writer forcing us to face the climate apocalypse
The author of the bestselling book The Uninhabitable Earth on why “we are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible”.
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“It’s easier to talk about gang rape than your body”: Roxane Gay on body positivity, trans rights, and 2020
The US author visited the UK for the first time in December 2018 to promote the paperback copy of her…
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Commons Confidential: The Labour plotters’ table
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The two faces of the gilets jaunes
There is a growing gulf between the grass-roots gilets, the militant mob involved in violent destruction, and the political wing seeking to keep…
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Greta Thunberg: the teenage climate warrior leading a new global movement
The Swedish 16-year-old has inspired a wave of school walkouts in protest at inaction over the climate crisis.
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Bruno Latour: the philosopher fighting to save science from itself
In his latest book Down to Earth, the French thinker warns that facts alone are no defence against populism.
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