coronavirus COVID-19 You hardly need to be told that life has changed over the past few weeks. We are experiencing an upending […] NP27: Family
Power A property crisis: interview with Thomas Piketty “Over a certain wealth level, particularly if you are Bill Gates, if you have several dozen billion dollars, you know […] NP21 digital: Power
Philosophy and you The lost art of travel We’re in perpetual motion; we can go anywhere, at any time, and the momentum builds. Before long, we’re planning another […] Previous editions
Power An antidote to prejudice It was a time of deep divisions, much like our day. Hatred seemed intractable and the curse of bias rife, […] NP21 digital: Power
Life Medicating the masses In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed […] NP21 digital: Power
Illusions Property’s principal corruption In the lead-up to the general election in the UK this year, everyone was talking about property. In the crowded […] NP21 digital: Power
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: […] Issue #14: nature
Death Being mortal Editor of New Philosopher Zan Boag interviews Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and the former editor […] NP25 digital: Death
Ideas to change your life Fixing the living to make a killing Do you trust your doctor? Should you trust your doctor? A recent op-ed in The New York Times suggests that […] NP19 digital: Life
Environment The end of progress David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by […] NP26 digital: Change
Environment An app for an ailing planet It is often said that the first full image of the ‘blue planet’, taken by the Apollo 17 space mission […] Issue #06: progress
Ideas to change your life The call to your own true adventure Think, for a moment, of who you are today, right now, reading this wherever you are – waiting in an […] NP26 digital: Change
Philosophy and you Are we getting smarter? Your typical adult from 1900 was pretty dumb, by today’s standards. Yank one off the street and run them through […] NP23 digital: Being
Philosophy and you Does the future matter? In Tino Sehgal’s installation of his artwork This Progress, each visitor walked into the bottom of The Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda […] NP22 digital: Time
Money & Consumerism Alternative hedonism Imagine if we all wore the same clothes, lived in the same sort of house and drove the same sort […] NP19 digital: Life
Life Human engineering You know the situation is getting desperate when three bioethicists propose genetically modifying humans to reduce our environmental impact. In […] NP23 digital: Being
Death Rat race to the afterlife So you’ve spent your life accumulating money – you’ve worked hard, invested wisely; every waking moment has been devoted to […] NP25 digital: Death
Ideas to change your life Are we the barbarians? The ancient Greeks invented a whole bunch of important stuff: democracy, tragedy, philosophy (if you ignore India and China, which […] NP26 digital: Change
Ideas to change your life The fourth revolution We live in amazing times. Digital media and the Internet have transformed how we exchange ideas, how we learn, how […] NP26 digital: Change
Being Human Who are we behind closed doors? In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in […] NP23 digital: Being
Philosophy and you Piketty: unequal selves Thomas Piketty’s recent work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, provides disturbing evidence about the increasing inequality of income and wealth […] Issue #09: property
Being Human The commercial self It’s an ancient human law and it makes us do extraordinary things. Author Tom Wolfe calls it serial immortality; it’s […] NP23 digital: Being
Death Dying for your beliefs Not all arguments are created equal. Many aren’t even arguments at all. Even utterances that appear to be advancing a […] NP25 digital: Death
Being Human Do you really know yourself? “Know thyself,” said the philosophers. No problem, said the rest of us. Self-help, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, inner self, outer self – […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human You are not who you think you are You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […] NP26 digital: Change
Ideas to change your life Losing ourselves to technology Millie’s vision became blurred and then she lost consciousness. Stressed and overworked, she took two weeks off, booked herself into […] NP26 digital: Change
Being Human Invest in your masterpiece – yourself Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance […] Previous editions
Ideas to change your life Factory Earth The family is worried. Suggestions are passed between siblings, and aunts and uncles are eager to set things right. What […] Issue #04: work
Society & Culture Rush hour Interview with Adam Magyar What prompted you to do the “stainless” series, as well as your earlier work “squares” and […] Issue #04: work
Ideas to change your life Dirty thoughts on civilised leisure By Damon Young “I work, God how I work… I have reduced it to a method and exalted it to […] NP20 digital: Play
Ideas to change your life Work less, live more Why do we work so much? Why do we even work at all? For a great chunk of human history […] Issue #04: work
Ideas to change your life Prosperity paradox Picture for a moment a world where technological innovation and industrial automation have finally brought us an era of unprecedented […] Issue #04: work
Happiness Happiness is hard to find I have been happy. I hope to be happy again. But I am yet to feel something I’d call “happiness”. […] Previous editions
Philosophy and you Subscribe now Click here to subscribe now and receive New Philosopher quarterly print magazine delivered to your door. 132 ad-free pages to […] Issue #19: life
Happiness Pleasure spots By George Orwell Some months ago I cut out of a shiny magazine some paragraphs written by a female journalist […] NP20 digital: Play
Society & Culture The value of boycott In July 1846, the American writer Henry David Thoreau went to prison for refusing to pay his poll tax. He […] Previous editions
Illusions Superhero of the mind To see a person taking in the wonders of the sky is a rare sight when all but a few […] Issue #11: technology
Life The project of being alive It’s not the first time that a movie has been shown to a vegetative audience but for some reason the […] NP23 digital: Being
Illusions You are your life, and nothing else Existentialist philosophers teach us that we alone are responsible for creating a meaningful life in an absurd and unfair world. […] NP19 digital: Life
Ideas to change your life The ladder of true understanding How well do you understand the world? Do you think you’ve got a good grasp of reality or not? Greek […] Issue #10: fame
Literature & Writing The Cartoon Philosopher: 13 questions with Michael Leunig 1. What is the biggest threat to our minds? Our minds. 2. What is freedom? Non-compliance and creativity. 3. What […] Previous editions
Illusions The identity toolkit Sum yourself up in a couple of words. Users of social media do it to introduce themselves online. “Surfer, father, […] Previous editions
Happiness Achieving good work If I were to ask people around the world what they admire, I am confident that high on the list […] Previous editions
Ideas to change your life How are you smart? The original scene: Paris, 1900‚ La Belle Epoque. The city fathers approached a talented psychologist named Alfred Binet with an […] Previous editions
Ideas to change your life If I’m free, why can’t I do what I want? By Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek I woke up my son Jan (9) for school, as I do every morning. He was […] Previous editions
Literature & Writing Cryptic crossword – issue#2:mind Set by Gizmogenes Across 1 Take to be hypothetical (8) 5 Perhaps Carol’s volte-face is secret knowledge (6) […] Previous editions
Literature & Writing 8 questions: Genís Carreras ABOUT THE ARTIST: Genís Carreras, a Spanish graphic designer based in London, produced the acclaimed “Philographics” series. 1. What prompted […] Previous editions
Illusions Freedom of thought: the media and propaganda Please answer True or False: 1. During World War I, the Germans ran a factory to boil down the battlefield […] Previous editions
Philosophy and you The dizziness of freedom The path laid out for Australian-born Tim Cope was to go to university, get a job, a career, a house […] Previous editions
Happiness Can We Increase Gross National Happiness? The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of […] Previous editions
Illusions Our surveillance society In the perfect prison, I am bathed in light. I don’t languish in the dark – I am put to […] Previous editions
Philosophy and you The Splendid Mess of Personal Identity Think of the earliest memory you have. For me, it’s looking at the sea through a glass door at about […] Previous editions
Philosophy and you Are we free? 6 philosophers’ views THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM IN ITS MYRIAD FORMS – BE IT FREE WILL, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, PHYSICAL OR PERSONAL FREEDOM […] Previous editions
Philosophy and you Bringing thinkers into focus: Steve Pyke It’s a dismal affair when the faces of people we don’t wish to remember – such as modern-day celebrities – […] Previous editions
Ideas to change your life 5 Ideas: Is there a solid core that makes you you? Ideas are powerful things. Even a little one can change the way you look at the world. And the big […] Previous editions
Happiness Shorts: why do it in prison? “Why do it in prison? Well, why do it anywhere? I do it in prison because I was asked, and […] Previous editions
Happiness Shorts: Epictetus and external events Think about what usually makes you angry, frustrated, anxious; most likely it has something to do with external events that […] Previous editions
Illusions The news – why do we subject ourselves to it? Every night at 6.00 pm, I want you to sit in a room for half an hour. During that time […] Previous editions
Life Game theory We sometimes joke about the world conspiring against us. For instance, I might suggest that it will rain today because […] NP20 digital: Play
Philosophy and you A work out for the mind Have you ever wondered why conversations with some people leave you feeling depleted while with others you feel liberated and […] Previous editions
Philosophy and you The unexamined life is not worth living I have long been intrigued by the claim, attributed to Socrates, that the ‘unexamined life is not worth living’. For […] Previous editions
Literature & Writing On Shadows and Realities in Education (Plato’s Cave) The Republic, Plato, Book VII AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is […] Previous editions
Literature & Writing Of the things which are in our Power, and not in our Power EPICTETUS: The Discourses Book One, Chapter 1 Of all the faculties, you will find not one which is capable of […] Previous editions
Opinion The question is: society defended against whom? Or what? Following my recent work on the possibilities of radical democracy, but most of all, in light of the historical demand […] Previous editions
Philosophy and you Is there a cafe philo near you? Following in the footsteps of Marc Sautet’s café philosophique – which was set up in 1992 and is widely credited […] Previous editions
Ideas to change your life Philosophy under attack I really shouldn’t let myself watch Q&A. Don’t get me wrong, the ABC’s flagship weekly panel show is usually compelling […] Previous editions