General Articles

Hap & Happiness

Stephen Anderson meditates on misfortune and meaning.
[Issue 155 :: April/May 2023]

Hannah Arendt: On the Spectre of Nuclear War

Maurits de Jongh finds our contemporary situation reflected in earlier states.
[Issue 155 :: April/May 2023]

The Urgency of Art

Sam McAuliffe thinks that art offers another way of thinking.
[Issue 155 :: April/May 2023]

Chamfort (1740-1794)

Martin Jenkins looks at the life of a wry observer of society, cut short by that society’s revolutionary turmoil.
[Issue 155 :: April/May 2023]

What Is Time?

Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the many entrants not included.
[Issue 155 :: April/May 2023]

Interview with a Chatbot

The full text of our brief interview with OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.
[Issue 155 :: April/May 2023]

John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor Mill on Equality in Marriage & Family

Lynn Gordon and David Louzecky compare the couple’s conjugal cogitations.
[Issue 154 :: February/March 2023]

A Solution to the Trolley Problem

Rick Coste says the solution depends upon what we’ll realistically allow.
[Issue 154 :: February/March 2023]

Virtual Dissolution

Maryna Lazareva says don’t be just a digital fish in the aquarium of social media.
[Issue 154 :: February/March 2023]

The Theodicies of Allama Iqbal & John Hick

Muhammad Mohsin Masood compares the evolutionary thinking of theologian John Hick and poet-philosopher Muhammad Allama Iqbal.
[Issue 154 :: February/March 2023]

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