Chambí’s World: Martín Chambi (1891-1973)
Before Ireland’s third pandemic lockdown began, in December 2020, I paid a visit to my…
Browsing: History and Economics
Tales from a Fourth Industrial Revolution
Back to the Future in search of ‘Green’ Conversations, perceptions and priorities change over time.…
Recalling W.G. Sebald
The attention in W. G. Sebald’s writing to the fascist era in European history anticipates…
Cross-Cultural Branding: ‘Glocalisation’
Much (reasonable) Ado about Branding and its components HSBC. The world’s local bank. Clever. Pepsi…
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…
The British Radical Tradition: E.P. Thompson
Britain has produced its fair share of major public intellectual figures. Having surveyed the legacies…
Gradations of Evil: Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism
Since the 1970s, the consistent presence of neoliberalism in politics alongside short, sharp bursts of…
Covid-19 and the Gig Economy: Hope Springs Eternal
He wants to work Monday nights but not Tuesday afternoons; she is available on Saturday…
COVID-19 and SMEs: Survival, Resilience and Renewal
In a recent survey of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) by Ernst and Young…
Declan Costello and the Decline of the Just Society
Fifty years ago a politician published a manifesto which, if implemented, would have changed the…
Ethical questions in the time of Covid-19? Ask a philosopher
The Centre for Ethics in Public Life at University College Dublin is inviting questions and…
An A.B.C. of Irish Modernism: Apocalypse, Boredom, Crack
In a powerful 1997 essay, Seamus Deane suggested that the twin forces that beset modern…
John Gray: the UK’s Leading Public Intellectual
Like errant flames from the dying embers of a once great fire, there is much…
In Conversation with David Langwallner
London-based Barrister David Langwallner, the founder of the Innocence Project in Ireland, responds to the…
Public Intellectual Series: Slavoj Žižek
No picture of the modern world is complete without a Marxist analysis. The fundamental point…
Plagues of Prejudice
In December 1899 Honolulu-based physicians attributed two deaths to bubonic plague, and a local paper…
The Bestseller that never existed
I first heard the story of Gene Shepherd after receiving a 46th rejection slip for…
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,…