Declan Costello and the Decline of the Just Society
Fifty years ago a politician published a manifesto which, if implemented, would have changed the…
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.
John Gray: the UK’s Leading Public Intellectual
Like errant flames from the dying embers of a once great fire, there is much…
Jonathan Sumption on Law and Politics
In his recent book, Trials of the State Law and the Decline of Politics, (Profile…
Review Bob Dylan’s – ‘Murder Most Foul’
I have been to four of Bob Dylan’s concerts in various places around the world,…
It is Time for a Renewed Deal
U.S. President (1932-45) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born into one of the most aristocratic families…
Public Intellectual Series: Slavoj Žižek
No picture of the modern world is complete without a Marxist analysis. The fundamental point…
Meeting Samuel Beckett’s Genius in Person and his Plays
Undeniably, Ireland has produced some of the finest creative writers in the history of the…
The Public Intellectual Series: Christopher Hitchens
Hardly a week goes by without someone asking me about my connection to Christopher Hitchens.…
The Public Intellectual Series: Noam Chomsky
They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness. John Milton,…
Public Intellectual Series: Michel Foucault
I have previously quoted a passage from Noam Chomsky, which acutely surveys the post-structuralist origins…
Silent Night or a New Christmas Carol from Greta Thunberg?
I especially enjoy visiting the Austrian side of my family around Salzkammergut during Christmas. The…
Irish Eyes Unsmiling: Have I Got News For You Brexit-Election Special!
Bob Hope once wisecracked: ‘the choice between Carter and Regan was not so much the…
Public Intellectual Series: George Orwell – A Crucial Man for Our Time
George Orwell has never been unfashionable, and is in vogue now more than ever. His…
Leading Public Intellectuals Series: Jürgen Habermas
It came as a surprise when the editor of Cassandra Voices divulged recently that he…
Reclaiming from Conservatism Perhaps the Greatest Irish Intellectual Edmund Burke
A past competition, now sadly in abeyance, used to involve arguing over who was the…
Albert Camus and the Decline of the Public Intellectual
But again, and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares…
Freedom of Speech in the Facebook Age
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently called for more stringent Internet privacy and election laws saying,…
The Limits of Law
‘What is law?’ This is a fundamental question posed at the outset of any course…
The Limits of Multiculturalism
I have previously warned that austerity economics and moral relativism are giving rise to a…
Is George Orwell’s England Now Home to Fintan O’Toole’s Swivel-Eyed Loons?
It was flattering to read Fintan O’Toole respond, however oblique, to my criticism of his…