The Wittgenstein of law
A "tell-all" biography of the liberal reformer and legal theorist HLA Hart sheds light on the flowering of Oxford philosophy from the 1930s to the 1970s
Explaining apathy
"Social capital" explains less than its proponents think
Divine schooling
The education in religious schools is not what it's cracked up to be
Previous convictions
Communitarian service
A single story
The deaths of WV Quine and Elizabeth Anscombe represent the end of an era
Dworkin’s desert island
Why the eminent political philosopher is ignored by modern politicians
Crooked thinking over rail safety
The Paddington rail disaster should not skew our spending priorities
ER – Is it art?
To its admirers, ER is the pinnacle of its genre, pushing at the boundries of its cultural space. To others its just a soap
John Rawls
In 1971 a reclusive American academic revived liberal political philosophy with "A Theory of Justice." Why did he write it? And why was it applauded and then ignored by the left?
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