The Irish Times view on Twitter and Elon Musk: a public space in private hands
The world’s richest man is standing against the tide of history at a time when governments are rightly trying to regulate the output of the digital giants
What’s it like to go mad? Meet the man who found out
Unthinkable: Psychosis gave Dutch linguist Wouter Kusters an insight into mental illness
Many exalted western values rooted in Christian tradition
Equality and doing no harm predate Enlightenment and French Revolution
Cancel culture: can you defend people who say unpopular things?
Unthinkable: Rival political philosophers can bring perspective to our current debates
Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?
Unthinkable: A study suggests social exclusion or loss of power may be a factor
Fintan O’Toole: The English love of eccentricity has turned sour
Brexit has given us a new species and a strange, new phenomenon – the harmful eccentric
We are in more of a muddle than ever about office romance
It’s years since I heard anyone in the office come close to trying to make a flirty joke
Neck trouble, philosophy and defiance: A literary guide to middle age
Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature
How Irish women won the right to vote in 1918
After decades of campaigning by the suffragettes, a 1918 Act gave a limited cohort of women the right to vote in parliamentary elections
Space for respectful, reasoned public discussion has shrivelled
Rite&Reason: Too many of us regard our viewpoint as a given and all else as worthy of ridicule
Our treatment of patients with severe obesity is unethical – but why?
Bariatric surgery is life-saving and cost-effective but due to pervasive bias, obese patients are not a healthcare priority
Where do atheists get their values?
John Gray explores fixed idea, unquestioning atheism in his new book Seven Types of Atheism
Never mind ‘Tiger Mom’, how does one parent ethically?
Unthinkable: Parents have no rule book but they can make better or worse arguments for exercising power
John Power: We are avoiding the messy business of debating contentious ideas
Google’s firing of an employee for expressing his views on women in technology does not help us find the truth
Optimism pays better than pessimism
Long-term performance of stock markets shows perma-bears have negativity bias
Roy Foster: Britain consigned to margins by the ‘stupid party’
Bad leadership and anti-intellectualism are to blame for Leave victory
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
Brendan Smyth may have sexually abused more than 200 children, inquiry told
Norbertine priest had serious concerns about Smyth’s proclivities before he was ordained
Are the days of feminism numbered?
More men are claiming to be feminists but what does that mean for the philosophy?
Royal regrets and Voltaire’s homage to Scotland make Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Website contains links to recordings of quotations spoken by authors including JFK and WB Yeats
Unthinkable: Should the nation be divorced from the state?
National identity plays a role in binding citizens but, as with religion, should the state stand above it?
Without the state, western democracies will remain a paradise for predators
Opinion: Personal freedom is a fine ideal, but unrestrained rampant individualism can undermine the common good
Hard questions about creating easy money
Quantitative easing is straightforward in theory but potentially complex in practice
Morrissey settles a few scores with his book, Autobiography
Account of growing up in Manchester is beautiful, but real focus will be on relationship with man
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