The Marx whisperer
The geographer David Harvey’s videos on Capital have made him an internet intellectual. But he has been observing the carnage…
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Susan Sontag’s women problem
In the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than human…
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We are still living with the wreckage of liberal globalisation
Free-market utopianism had a devastating impact on those without the resources to live an individualised life.
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The first reactionary
Edmund Burke may be the Conservatives’ philosopher king – but his thinking was more fickle than Tories seem to realise.
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Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls
Brilliant and eccentric, the Oxford philosopher spent his career grappling with fundamental moral questions.
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ChatGPT and the death of the author
AI-powered chatbots are not only exploiting human creativity but rapidly eroding it.
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Arno J Mayer’s 20th century
The historian helped transform the writing of history – and with it our understanding of the modern world.
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The detective of world history
The New Left thinker Tom Nairn, who has died aged 90, understood the appeal of British identity even as he…
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