coronavirus Virus views: inexplicable restlessness We will be publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it […]
coronavirus Virus views: collective fear We will be publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it […]
coronavirus Virus views: discombobulated We will be publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it […]
coronavirus COVID-19 You hardly need to be told that life has changed over the past few weeks. We are experiencing an upending […]
News 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 […]
Competitions 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 […]
Death Fifty to know the fate Gao Rongguo is an artist based in Beijing. His work has been exhibited internationally, including the Quai Branly Museum in […]
Ideas to change your life The obsolete human being By William Watkin Now Take one last look at your smartphone. You probably regard it as the cutting edge […]
Being Human 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 […]
Being Human Doing away with death By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use […]
Being Human Caught in the web By Antonia Case “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and […]
Being Human Defining ourselves By Ai Weiwei Many of the problems in the world today, when one reflects upon them, call for an answer […]
Ideas to change your life 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 […]
Society & Culture How power corrupts Zan Boag: Have you arrived at your own definition of power? Keith Dowding: No, I don’t really have one, actually, […]
Society & Culture Let the kids out If you go to the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, you will find that it has been transformed into […]
Society & Culture An antidote to prejudice It was a time of deep divisions, much like our day. Hatred seemed intractable and the curse of bias rife, […]
Life Medicating the masses In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed […]
Environment Divorced from nature: interview with Jane Goodall Dr Jane Goodall interviewed by New Philosopher’s editor Zan Boag in the ‘Nature‘ edition. Photo by Michael Neugebauer. Zan Boag: […]
Illusions Thinking ahead Søren Kierkegaard famously pointed out that the only way we can understand life is backwards – we are compelled to […]
Ideas to change your life Fake news “The essence of bullshit,” argued philosopher Harry Frankfurt in his 2005 book On Bullshit, “is not that it is false […]
