The madness of crowds

Grasping the ethics of the crisis requires us to understand properly the concept of proportionality

We are now suffering the Hawaiianisation of everywhere

Political philosophers may find Edmund Fawcett’s assertion that “liberty is the wrong place to begin” when telling the story of liberalism rather startling. They tend to be in the business of...

Most of our opinions are formed unconsciously

Derek Parfit and Janet Radcliffe-Richards believe that philosophy should guide behaviour. Their marriage shows that it can

Five years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of autumn 2008, I spoke to Andrew Gamble, professor of politics at Cambridge, about a book he'd just published. "The Spectre...

Teleportation and LSD trips could help us understand the nature of personal identity

Pragmatism can sometimes override ethics

A little over 25 years ago, in the midst of the “Lawson boom” and the Thatcher government’s privatisation of major public utilities, David Marquand, the political writer, historian and former...