It’s the best way to ensure that elites start behaving better and to restore public trust

Philosophers have given wildly different answers over the centuries

It is fairly obvious that "King Lear" is a better play than "Timon of Athens"

The notion of human rights has increasing political salience—but is it built on sturdy philosophical ground?

Attempts to fuse Islam and modern liberalism represent little more than the ghost of a renaissance. True reform will require bolder thinking

For decades abstruse, technical philosophy has dominated the field—but is that changing, and should we want it to?

"Bad education seeks to make the child something other than him or herself"

The Australian philosopher on "effective altruism," immigration points systems and defining philosophy

Philosophers from Rousseau to Nietzsche have offered answers

Britain's "Nudge Unit" persuades 100,000 people to sign up for organ donation a year