Lessons from the Great Depression (II)
Ger-mania… Extraordinarily, Germany appears on the brink of following the lead of Austria in mandating…
Author David Langwallner
David Langwallner
David Langwallner is a human rights lawyer and founder of the Innocence Project in Ireland. He was previously Dean of Law at Griffith College. He was made Pro Bono & Public Interest Team/Lawyer of the Year at the AIB Private Banking Irish Law Awards 2015.
Lessons From the Great Depression (I)
This is the first instalment of a three part essay on the legacy of the…
Socio-Economic Rights Must Be Vindicated
The noted American historian, and Putin critic,Timothy Snyder’s recent text Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty…
Shakespeare’s Wisdom in Troubled Times
As a barrister I am given to quoting from Shakespeare’s plays in closing speeches. This…
Czech Intellectuals: Kafka and Kundera
I was briefly a Professor of Law and International Relations at the Anglo-American University in…
The Other Great Troubadour
Unlike Bob Dylan who is still actively making music, Leonard Cohen has not released a…
Public Intellectuals: Hannah Arendt
A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that…
J. G. Ballard: Foreshadowing Collapse
The fusion of mood and setting, the mapping of a landscape of the troubled mind…
Meeting Ingmar Bergman
I had second thoughts about boarding a plane to Stockholm to meet Ingmar Bergman twenty-four…
Recalling W.G. Sebald
The attention in W. G. Sebald’s writing to the fascist era in European history anticipates…
Reform or we are Scrooged
Often dismissed as ‘worthy’, but perhaps overly wordy, products of the nineteenth century, the novels…
Public Intellectual Series: Religion
Say it to me if you have something to confess I was born on the…
The Public Intellectual Series So Far
The Public Intellectual Series offers inter-disciplinary journalism, focusing on relevant authors and subject-matters crucial to…
Amy Coney Barrett and “Originalism”
The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son The age of the…
The British Radical Tradition: E.P. Thompson
Britain has produced its fair share of major public intellectual figures. Having surveyed the legacies…
Game Over: American Democracy in Tatters
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg signals the death knell of the tradition of liberal…
Gradations of Evil: Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism
Since the 1970s, the consistent presence of neoliberalism in politics alongside short, sharp bursts of…
Multiculturalism in an Age of Extremes
I feel that Europe, in its state of degeneracy has passed its own death sentence.…
Enforcing Environmental Rights
Introduction However scant the support provided by the legal process, as a lawyer I am…
Declan Costello and the Decline of the Just Society
Fifty years ago a politician published a manifesto which, if implemented, would have changed the…