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If you’re lucky enough to have several million dollars more than you need, what should you do with this money? One answer is that you should do whatever you want, at least within the bounds of legality: it’s…
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What is your demon? My demon is digital distractions, serving as a modern mind’s junk food, masking the deeper malaise of societal indifference and…
Zan Boag: When you first started out making decisions about what you were going to do with your life, you had to make a…
In 1842, after a series of military defeats through the course of the First Opium War, the Chinese Qing dynasty signed the Nanjing Treaty…
It is often said that the first full image of the ‘blue planet’, taken by the Apollo 17 space mission in December 1972, revealed…
London, December 2019: We're thrilled to announce that New Philosopher has been named 'Magazine of the Decade' by the UK's leading independent subscription service…
A climate of mind Anyone who cares about climate change has to be tired of the vitriolic tirades that masquerade as public debate over…
Do you trust your doctor? Should you trust your doctor? A recent op-ed in The New York Times suggests that doctor-patient trust is wavering.…
The question of happiness and how to get it is endlessly entertaining. It’s one of the few topics on which we are all experts,…
Think of the earliest memory you have. For me, it’s looking at the sea through a glass door at about the age of two…
I doubt I'm the only one experiencing a stretching of time - each day feels like a week; each week like several months. "Reality…
Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher, left us to interpret and apply his often-cryptic aphorisms. One of the fragments that survives from his writing declares, “All…
Zan Boag: What responsibility does a society have for the health of its individuals? Where do individual responsibility and societal responsibility begin and end?…