My abortion in 1988 was a lesson in care and resistance
Abortion in England in the Eighties was legal, if not easy to access. For the two Irish women in the clinic with me, it was a…
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Lyndsey Stonebridge
Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham.
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The four thinkers who reinvented philosophy
Between the wars, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer and Walter Benjamin sought to transform the world by giving…
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The world to come: A new politics of hope
The thick spike proteins of Covid-19 have latched on to poverty, inequality and racism. There has to be a…
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What Hannah Arendt can teach us about work in the time of Covid-19
The philosopher’s distinction between work and labour should guide our attempts to build a better society.
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Simone de Beauvoir’s second coming
For decades Simone de Beauvoir was seen as a mere accessory to Sartre. But we are only beginning to…
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Why Hannah Arendt is the philosopher for now
Arendt’s political philosophy, formed under Nazi persecution, is having a resurgence in our troubled age.
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How books help us to be better political citizens
What Orwell can teach us about the refugee crisis, and why literature is more than a route to self-knowledge.
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