Recalling W.G. Sebald
The attention in W. G. Sebald’s writing to the fascist era in European history anticipates…
Browsing: History and Economics
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,…
Public Intellectual Series: Michel Foucault
I wrote what follows prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, and have been prompted to re-read…
Jeremy Corbyn, Percy Shelley and Ireland
The Irish media generally looks askance at Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘radical socialist manifesto.’[i] An historically warm…