Essays, interviews and ideas from New Philosopher.
Western industrial civilisation is eating itself stupid. Cookery programs bloat the television schedules, cookbooks fill the bookshop windows, and celebrity chefs hawk their own…
It was a time of deep divisions, much like our day. Hatred seemed intractable and the curse of bias rife, when a sharecropper’s daughter…
I’d been sitting in John Gulzari’s living room for more than an hour when he suddenly jumped up and rushed from the room. John…
Clean lines, absence of decoration, avoidance of clutter, simplicity, and above all functionality – these are the characteristics of modernist architecture that were encapsulated…
Zan Boag interviews Peter Singer on the ethical issues that arise from travelling. Peter Singer AC is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and…
In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed – was that: “Psychiatrists…
The Continental adventure was not going to plan for John Polidori. A young English doctor dreaming of literary acclaim and resentful of his father’s…
Bailed after what he claimed was the accidental gunshot homicide of his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer (“Come on, Bill, let’s do our William Tell…
Dr Jane Goodall interviewed by New Philosopher's editor Zan Boag in the 'Nature' edition. Photo by Michael Neugebauer. Zan Boag: Your life’s work has…
Søren Kierkegaard famously pointed out that the only way we can understand life is backwards – we are compelled to live moving forwards, but…
“The essence of bullshit,” argued philosopher Harry Frankfurt in his 2005 book On Bullshit, “is not that it is false but that it is…
There’s never been a better time in history to be the kind of person who enjoys not eating things. In my corner of New…