Public Intellectuals: Hannah Arendt
A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that…
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.
A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that…
The fusion of mood and setting, the mapping of a landscape of the troubled mind…
I had second thoughts about boarding a plane to Stockholm to meet Ingmar Bergman twenty-four…
The attention in W. G. Sebald’s writing to the fascist era in European history anticipates…
Often dismissed as ‘worthy’, but perhaps overly wordy, products of the nineteenth century, the novels…
Say it to me if you have something to confess I was born on the…
The Public Intellectual Series offers inter-disciplinary journalism, focusing on relevant authors and subject-matters crucial to…
The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son The age of the…
Britain has produced its fair share of major public intellectual figures. Having surveyed the legacies…
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg signals the death knell of the tradition of liberal…
Since the 1970s, the consistent presence of neoliberalism in politics alongside short, sharp bursts of…
I feel that Europe, in its state of degeneracy has passed its own death sentence.…
Introduction However scant the support provided by the legal process, as a lawyer I am…
Fifty years ago a politician published a manifesto which, if implemented, would have changed the…
Like errant flames from the dying embers of a once great fire, there is much…
In his recent book, Trials of the State Law and the Decline of Politics, (Profile…
I have been to four of Bob Dylan’s concerts in various places around the world,…
U.S. President (1932-45) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born into one of the most aristocratic families…
No picture of the modern world is complete without a Marxist analysis. The fundamental point…
Undeniably, Ireland has produced some of the finest creative writers in the history of the…