It is not surprising that cultural and political theorists like influential Slovenian philosopher, Salvoj Žizek, are already mapping out the societal changes they believe, or hope, will follow the socio-economic devastation of successive lockdowns. It is clear that governments all over the world have bought time at a cost unprecedented in peacetime. There will be […]
The Tyranny of Merit is not the sort of book that you expect to emerge from a lecture theatre at that den of wokeness, Harvard University. But the author, Michael Sandel, is one of its best-known professors, a rock star intellectual who fills auditoriums around the world with engaging and challenging lectures on justice. What makes […]
A number of staff at Penguin Random House Canada broke into tears as they expressed opposition to publishing Jordan Peterson’s latest book.
My reading suggestion for these difficult times is probably not very original, undoubtedly challenging, but also certainly fully worth trying. It’s Dante’s La Divina Commedia. The quarantine we are experiencing or will be experiencing soon gives us much more time than we usually have; it forces us to stay inside, and it leads us to ponder […]
In a move that will have critics and allies of RTÉ alike questioning the journalistic standards of the station Dr Peter Boylan has made the claim that Jon Williams, the managing director of RTE News, and presenter Claire Byrne made a pledge to him that he would be given a right of immediate response to […]