Game Over: American Democracy in Tatters
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg signals the death knell of the tradition of liberal…
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The Shelbourne’s Moving Statues
Editor’s Note: On Monday 26th of July the luxury 5-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin removed…
Covid-19: Young Lives Count Too
Doctors save lives today. It’s part of their oath and ethics. Unsurprisingly, most doctors faced…
World Refugee Day: the Importance of Storytelling
Twenty years ago the UN General Assembly made the 20th of June World Refugee Day…
Do Not Resuscitate
Holy Gawd, we’re back to Charles Darwin and his interpreters. In the mid-19th century Darwin…
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…
UK Election 2019: Why has common sense become a ‘radical’ proposition?
Last week two young people were stabbed to death at London Bridge while attending a…
Reviving the Language of Care in Climate Change Consciousness
As a child I had recurring dreams of great waves crashing over me. Some would…
Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders Confront Common Neo-Liberal Frenemies
The Corbyn phenomenon – and the utter media-class meltdown over it – is weirdly but…
‘Wooden Legs on Hens’ – The Ongoing Failure of the Restoration of the Irish Language
Last January, the Minister for Education, Joe McHugh, invited views from the public on the…
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…
Explaining the Shutdown with Trump’s Magic Eightball
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.…
Who did pay that Restaurant Bill Mr Varadkar?
Following an account of a New York banquet in a recent biography of Leo Varadkar[i],…
The Slow Death of White Male Privilege
The history books are laden with white men changing the world, from Alexander the Great…
Ryan Tubridy’s Ethical Flop
Ryan Tubridy is the highest paid broadcaster in Ireland’s state broadcaster, RTÉ, earning close to…
The Audacity of a Third Party Candidate
The problem with writing about the U.S. Democratic Party, whether analytically, historically, or even as…
RTÉ Says: ‘Stars’ In Their Own Cars
One trail runs dry, but a scent hangs in the air. Pursuant to Stephen Court’s…
Leopold Bloom and the Art of Loafing
What does it mean to be a loafer? Loafing as an activity has always existed.…
What Lies Behind Ireland’s Abortion Referendum
Is it cynical to suggest that Ireland’s ruling Fine Gael party is using the referendum…
Defiant Compassion
On yoga teacher training courses among the heartening questions I receive are ones that readers…