Not sure how to vote on Jan 7th? Maybe Edmund can help. A Burke worth listening to! #Unthinkable #philosophy via Irish Times Opinion irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Have you a trip coming up? Write a 'Letter from...' your destination and you could win €3K in The Irish Times writing prize - in memory of a great guy and much missed colleague Dave McKechnie irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…

Here is a thing from the European University Institute in Florence, in collab with voting advice app scholars at Lausanne & Lucerne universities: you’re posed 30 policy questions and based on your answers it tells you the party most aligned with yr views euandi.eu

Cinema has a way of making the near future tangible - and film studies is giving us new insights on the evolving relationship between humans & technology. Thanks to Jennifer O'Meara for the chat about her research on screens 'at the Precipice of Hyper-reality' irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

What joke would you tell #PopeFrancis on Friday? It has got to be that Christmas cracker favourite: - Who was born in a stable and had millions of followers? - Red Rum irishtimes.com/culture/2024/0…

'Acknowledging my stupidity has helped me to see that being wrong is a positive... That’s an outlook that has gifted me with a relish for philosophy; because in philosophy the answer is always ultimately wrong.' Lovely piece by Michael 'Socrates' Harding irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

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Political leaders have been 'loud in hailing Irish centrism, but they also need to consider the juvenile, self-serving posturing... about climate policies & why the Greens have become convenient scapegoats through being honest about an undeniable reality' irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

“He is radical. It’s not a wellness manifesto. It’s not a way of coping. I would see John as… as important as St Patrick.” Tommy Tiernan on John Moriarty ahead of the first John Moriarty Festival in Moyvane, Co Kerry irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Hair starting to thin?👋Today's #Unthinkable #Philosophy column provides a three-step philosophical treatment. (All natural & Stoic ingredients, no animal testing.) irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

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George Berkeley: the Irish philosopher, bishop and cannabis fan: The strange story of Ireland's most conservative philosopher, bishop and slave owner's interest in growing hemp in Clare and Limerick. By @quiteclare Trinity College Dublin rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Four-page Edna O'Brien special, edited by Martin Doyle, in Monday's The Irish Times, featuring Anne Enright, Carlo Gébler and Eimear McBride with a host of tributes from many of her fellow writers

RIP Tom Hyland, a fearless campaigner who showed just how much power an individual can have by not looking away. Principled, compassionate, loyal & a great character - his Michael Noonan impression was a joy to behold! Condolences to his family & friends irishtimes.com/world/asia-pac…

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Gambling recklessly with people’s futures is incompatible with social justice. Philosopher John Rawls showed this in theory. Tech giants, crypto 'innovators' & their hired hands in politics are showing it in practice, with potentially ruinous consequences. irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

Down with postmodernism and its capitalist agents! Today's #Unthinkable #philosophy column with Prof John Divers Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin on Zuckerberg, 'epistemological anarchy' & objective truth irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

“You don’t look grateful.”

Three things we give up when we turn away from Catholicism. Reposting for the day that's in it RIP #PopeFrancis irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

Pope Francis vs Jordan Peterson: Two types of self-help (from the Irish Times Opinion #Unthinkable archives) irishtimes.com/culture/2022/0…