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Essays and ideas exploring power, authority, influence, control, responsibility, and the ways power shapes relationships and society.

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New Philosopher celebrates 10 years

We're thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of New Philosopher. Back in 2013, we launched the magazine at the Byron Writers Festival - at the time,…

Power scripts

There were scripts I learned very early while growing up in an African-American community in the urban South. In the 1960s and ‘70s, civil rights leader…

Power to the people?

By Mark Colyvan & Brian Hedden Most of us have great faith in democracy. Such is this faith that when democratic processes deliver poor results (as…

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 a prince…

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 that that’s…

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