Eoin Lenihan’s Vandalising Ireland proposes an idiosyncratic new direction for Ireland
Unthinkable: We’re all anti-globalist now: an idea of the left has became a rallying call of the right
The chatbot will see you now: is this the future of Irish medicine?
Evidence of AI progress is mounting whereas humans ‘haven’t had a software update in 200,000 years’
Culture wars have come for Dublin’s Winter Lights festival
Posts on X are channelling rage at the wokerati accused of being out to ban Christmas
Dreading Christmas dinner with your family? You may be an otrovert
Psychiatrist Rami Kaminski has identified a new ‘personality style’ but is it just a pleasing label for stubborn individualists?
How to think like a bee and stop comparing yourself with others
Unthinkable: Resentment animates much of our political debate today. Here’s a three-point plan to tackle it
Simon Harris may be wrong about migration figures but he wasn’t dogwhistling
Policing language has damaged progressive causes - it’s time to retire the linguistic ‘harm hunters’
Debate about the role of the Tricolour in a united Ireland fails the logic test
Unthinkable: Fact-checking isn’t enough to save democracy, we need logic-checking
The Catholic thinker behind JD Vance’s religious conversion
Unthinkable: French philosopher René Girard developed a theory of scapegoating. The US vice president has weaponised it
Maybe some of us are just not meant to be president
Unthinkable: Many of us aspire to wealth, status and titles such as ‘president’, even when our vocation lies elsewhere
I tried to stare at this painting for three hours. And something odd happened
Should art be useful and retrain our brains or is it more important than that?
This man spent 15 years translating Plato’s dialogues. What he learned is vital for us all
Plato throws down a challenge to us all on how to engage in free and open-ended public debate
The attention economy has made us less attentive, but there is a solution
Unthinkable: Philosopher Simone Weil died in 1943 aged 34, but she may have had the answer many of us are seeking
Meet the philosopher who thinks AI ought to have the same moral rights as humans
Unthinkable: Better start sucking up to your microwave
Do you suffer from FOCO, a fear of causing offence? Here’s some advice
Unthinkable: Parents may be partly to blame for heightened anxiety among under-30s
Cryptocurrency is financial cocaine for the middle classes
Unthinkable: It’s only a few years since the last global economic crash. Will the next one be worse?