Debates

On my office wall, at an institution I taught at a few years ago, was a dull, unimposing poster from the American Psychological Association—the organization responsible for the conventions of …
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In the early years of the eighteenth century, when Leibniz and Clarke debated, there were at least two plausible ways for European thinkers to imagine the cosmos and, by implication, …
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Introduction: A Philosophical Crisis

In the UK, over the last several years, philosophy has come under sustained state-sanctioned attack. The closure of the University of Kent’s Department of Philosophy, the …
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2026 strikes me as the year in which AI’s fiercest critics began writing their critiques with the help of artificial intelligence. I notice because they use it clumsily and barely …
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The apparent conflict at the heart of Toy Story 5 (Andrew Stanton, 2026) is easy to understand. Sheriff Jessie (Joan Cusack), together with Woody (Tom Hanks), Bullseye, and the other traditional toys, …
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More than ever before, the global economy is dangerously reliant on the acceleration in bank credit flows, driven almost entirely by massive U.S. borrowing tied to artificial intelligence expansion, which …
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Are we in a pre-war state? Undoubtedly yes, and what further complicates the picture is that the threat of global war is combined with two other threats: the ecological catastrophe …
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We can speak today of a certain crisis of democracy both as a fact and, more importantly, as a credible value. Authoritarian regimes prove their efficiency, and in many Western …
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare [1] is a play that is historical in nature, based on actual characters and events during the Roman era, in particular, the …
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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were cold and violent through much of Europe; Jacques Caillot’s 1633 depiction of “the miseries of war” remains shocking even today. They were also times …
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