Books & Arts
25 March 2024
Two new biographies of Hannah Arendt couldn’t be more different. Our reviewer was captivated by one of them
Books & Arts
27 February 2024
Why the extraordinary Jack Lindsay deserves to be better known
Books & Arts
18 January 2024
A German writer’s candid account of the shifting boundary between solitude and loneliness
Books & Arts
28 July 2023
The philosopher presciently identified an age awash in “bullshit”
Books & Arts
26 July 2023
A philosopher considers the case for abolishing prisons
Books & Arts
22 May 2023
A necessarily incomplete guide to the prolific philosopher Slavoj Žižek
Books & Arts
6 February 2023
How best should we cope with our awareness of death — and a desire to control when it happens?
Essays & Reportage
21 October 2022
A former colleague pays tribute to philosopher and Inside Story contributor Janna Thompson
Books & Arts
3 December 2021
Can philosophy really cure good people of bad thinking?
From the archive
27 September 2021
How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals
Essays & Reportage
2 August 2021
When and why did friendship slide down our hierarchy of relationships?
Books & Arts
28 July 2021
“I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends,” observed philosopher David Hume, before dragging himself back to his desk
Books & Arts
14 May 2021
A biography of biochemist Jennifer Doudna raises hard questions about where genetic research is heading
Books & Arts
7 April 2021
Books | Are reports of philosophy’s death premature?
From the archive
24 February 2021
The afterlife of Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
Books & Arts
8 December 2020
When ethical views come pre-packaged, it’s hard to have productive conversations
National Affairs
7 October 2020
The government needs to do more to share the risks during the recovery
Books & Arts
27 May 2020
Books | If we were smarter, would we realise we’re better than we think?
Books & Arts
22 October 2019
Books | Most of us are cosmopolitan, but how does that mean we should behave?
Books & Arts
14 June 2019
What does it mean to reason, to hold beliefs and to experience emotions?
Books & Arts
7 June 2019
Books | Conservative commentator David Brooks mightn’t be writing for everyone, but he’s traversing important terrain
Essays & Reportage
28 May 2019
Is there a way to escape the paradox presented so movingly by Stan Grant?
Books & Arts
19 April 2019
Books | Julienne van Loon asks all the right questions in this exploration of life in a precarious world
Essays & Reportage
18 February 2019
Is “gender ideology” really a danger to feminism?
Books & Arts
3 December 2018
Books | Identities are best worn lightly and critically, argues the British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
Books & Arts
16 January 2018
Books | Most people want to live an ethical life, argues Michael Ignatieff in his latest book
Books & Arts
19 July 2017
Books | Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of public life. It’s a highly ambitious goal, and would it necessarily be desirable?
Essays & Reportage
31 May 2017
Philosopher Peter Singer puts a disturbingly simple case for altruism. Too simple, perhaps?
Essays & Reportage
22 March 2017
What is the alt-right intelligentsia talking about?
Essays & Reportage
22 August 2016
The Coalition and Labor both say their offshore processing policies are driven by realism, writes Peter Mares. But a practical approach must engage with moral questions as well