Virus views: The conflict of time
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Virus views: human responses
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…
COVID-19
You hardly need to be told that life has changed over the past few weeks. We are experiencing an upending of our lives. It…
Arabic edition of New Philosopher
We're pleased to announce that the Arabic edition of New Philosopher has launched, thanks to the wonderful work of our partners at Mana.net. For…
New Philosopher ‘Magazine of the Decade’
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…
The obsolete human being
By William Watkin Now Take one last look at your smartphone. You probably regard it as the cutting edge of technology, and those…
Humans of the Anthropocene
By Roy Scranton. You can walk to the beach from where we are staying. It’s a long peel of dun-coloured sand bordered by tidy…
Doing away with death
By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use are designed with planned…
Caught in the web
By Antonia Case “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity,…
Defining ourselves
By Ai Weiwei Many of the problems in the world today, when one reflects upon them, call for an answer to an ancient question:…
The ethics of political power
“From this we learn that a wise prince sees to it that never, in order to attack someone, does he become the ally of…
How power corrupts
Zan Boag: Have you arrived at your own definition of power? Keith Dowding: No, I don’t really have one, actually, and I’m not sure…
