The Public Intellectual Series: Christopher Hitchens
Hardly a week goes by without someone asking me about my connection to Christopher Hitchens.…
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.
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 wrote what follows prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, and have been prompted to re-read…
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…
Public Intellectuals: 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…
Fintan O’Toole’s Brexit Myopia
As a freshly UK-embedded Irish barrister I am adjusting from confronting Ireland’s problems to addressing…
Review: Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
In his autobiography– in itself an unusual exercise for a lawyer – Geoffrey Robertson QC,…
There is Something Rotten in the State of Democracy
On a recent visit to Athens I chanced upon the supposed tomb of Socrates near…
Post-Truth: People of the Lie
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the basis of all morality. Mahatma…
The Towering Qualities Needed in an Advocate
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Tower of Song’ is a short history, and valedictory, to the tradition of…
We Need Another ‘New Deal’ and Umbrella to Unite Under
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), U.S. President between 1933 and 1945, was born to enormous privilege.…
Steve Bannon’s Tour de Farce
Donald Trump’s former confidante Steve Bannon has been on a latter-day American Grand Tour around…