Rishi Sunak’s D-Day apology reveals the limits of saying sorry
It isn’t always the hardest word. It’s often the easiest. It can trip off the tongue far too readily.
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Walking into the past
Exploring London’s ragged borderland offers new perspectives on love, loss and the ephemeral nature of life.
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Judith Butler and the fear of gender
In the 1990s a new philosophy helped open up alternative ways of being. Nobody predicted it would lead to war.
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The man who lived at the end of history
Why the 20th-century intellectual Ernesto de Martino believed that we should prepare for the apocalypse.
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Enter the Age of Malthus
The climate crisis, geopolitical disorder, and the rise of the “praetorian regime”.
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John Gray and Peter Thiel: Life in a postmodern world
A conversation between the philosopher and the venture capitalist.
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
Will the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
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On the slaughter-bench of history
Hegel’s analysis of humanity as stumbling from one horror to the next remains all too relevant.
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Letter of the week: World leaders must show the way forward
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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What Daniel Dennett gets wrong
Is consciousness an illusion? Only a philosopher could convince himself of something as implausible.
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Why Sam Bankman-Fried’s deluded world-view matters
His utilitarianism reflects the culture of Silicon Valley, which wields great power over how we relate to one another.
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Mario Tronti’s divine comedy
How the Italian philosopher, who died last month aged 92, turned to theology in his war with the world.
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EP Thompson’s dystopian visions
His science fiction novel tackled two fears: atomic annihilation and AI determinism.
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Why I loved my dog
Animals have so much to teach us.
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Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss
Sixty years ago, the French writer’s unflinching memoir of her mother’s death tested the limits of her existentialism.
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Simone Weil’s great awakening
How the French activist and thinker forged a radical new philosophy for an age of war and ideological conflict.
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Milan Kundera’s identity crisis
In renouncing his homeland and despairing of European culture, the Czech novelist walks in the footsteps of Kafka.
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Hegel against the machines
The philosopher’s ideas on intelligence have staggering implications for the future of AI.
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The plain-speaking philosophers
Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure shows how Oxford’s “ordinary language” movement, pioneered by JL Austin and Gilbert Ryle, looked…
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The Red Christian
How Jacques Maritain, the most influential Catholic intellectual of the 20th century, changed the world.
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