What can the West learn from the rest?

Unthinkable: Borrowing foreign ideas can expand our thinking, says Julian Baggini

Have human rights created an ‘entitlement’ culture?

Unthinkable: Concern about ‘rights inflation’ has led to a renewed focus on moral duties

Coping: It’s too bad you are bitter about my comment on Twitter

Hurt feelings are a poor reason for denying the right to free speech

WB Yeats on fairies: ‘At Howth, a great colony of otherworld creatures travel nightly’

In the first of a series of excerpts from Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Irish Cultural and Political Writings 1891-1922, WB Yeats describes how “ghosts and goblins do still live and rule in the imaginations of” Irish men and women

The moral sense of Down man Francis Hutcheson

The forgotten Irish philosopher liked to think the best of people

Courts need to expand view of open justice