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Zan Boag: It’s hard for me not to start with an obvious question, which is: with all the options available to you as a…
“Novelty has a tendency to make us philosophers.” – Virginia Woolf Constantly looking outwards, humans have crossed continents and oceans, invented technological wizardry, created…
“It is rare to see a professional economist, in interpreting the past or forecasting the future, quoting what a businessperson or newspaper writer thinks…
After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online stores but Bloomsbury is…
"Every now and then an epiphany comes along in the form of a book. Are we being who we secretly thought we could be?…
We're thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of New Philosopher. Back in 2013, we launched the magazine at the Byron Writers Festival - at…
We are publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it can help us all make…
You hardly need to be told that life has changed over the past few weeks. We are experiencing an upending of our lives. It…
Western industrial civilisation is eating itself stupid. Cookery programs bloat the television schedules, cookbooks fill the bookshop windows, and celebrity chefs hawk their own…
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…
In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed – was that: “Psychiatrists…
