The Leaving Cert points race crushes open-ended dialogue
Dropping ‘risky’ ideas from the curriculum is bad for students
Six qualities make you cool, according to science. Trying too hard isn’t one of them
There’s a lesson here for politicians or political analysts who put great store in image management
Netflix recommendations, IQ scores and Duolingo streaks: the top 5 most useless metrics
Unthinkable: Not all rankings are worth paying attention to, but here’s one that is
Why Donald Trump has the mind of a cat
Making sense of the 47th US president is not easy, but a 17th century philosopher could have the answer
Hate growing old? This advice will help you navigate it
Advice from philosophers, including don’t stop playing, and don’t over-invest in your children
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?