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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lea Ypi on Albania’s archives: ‘You might find something horrible on a person you’re extremely attached to’
Compelled to tell her grandmother’s true story, the academic realised she’d have to confront the records of the old state security and secret police force
Why is the EU gutting landmark pieces of legislation it only passed recently?
Ursula von der Leyen is taking a scissors to EU’s ‘red tape’ perception
Reviews in brief: How the ‘other’ lives and writes, high-school satire and self-destructive undergrads
To Save and to Destroy by Viet Thanh Nguyen; Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk; and These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
Five accessible reads to begin with if you’re new to philosophy
If you’re not already an enthusiast, don’t start at Kant or Nietzsche
How would Nietzsche have judged those affected by the housing crisis: victims or whingers?
Friedrich Nietzsche disliked complaining but he recognised the importance of shelter
Why did I choose to write an absurdist novel?
Declan Toohey on how his debut, Perpetual Comedown, came into being
Immediate Family: Compassionate story about family ties that will always bind
Book review: A thought-provoking debut novel on adoption from Ashley Nelson Levy
Only real energy at United the apparently bottomless well of dismay
Sideshow of outrage continues but in reality after 20 great years the team has been poor for nine
What is free will? Can we know God? And what if everyone was really buff, with abs and stuff?
Patrick Freyne: Like all great fiction, Masters of the Universe asks the big questions
Euro 2020: How Irish people should feel – philosophically speaking – about England’s loss
Feeling gleeful? Schopenhauer wouldn’t approve, but Nietzsche would understand
Should we cancel Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche?
Unthinkable: Famous philosophers are being reappraised in light of their prejudices
Left floundering by the jet ski minds of a younger generation
Unthinkable: Philosophy's future is in safe hands judging by the Young Philosopher Awards
Journalism has become ‘ridiculous’: The case for turning off the news
Unthinkable: Self-help writer Rolf Dobelli is ‘calmer and wiser’ since going ‘news free’
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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