Tag Archives: November 2025

PHILOSOPHY NOW MAGAZINE – OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2025

PHILOSOPHY NOW MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Moral Issues

Challenging Times & Moral Issues

De-Extinction: Bringing Back Beasts or Playing God?

John Kennedy Philip revives the ethical debate around resurrecting species.

Forced Vaccination

Naina Krishnamurthy asks if it’s ethical or egregious.

Moral Decision-Making for a Job Search

Norman Schultz wonders when working is wrong.

What My Sister Taught Me About Humanity

Lee Clarke argues that we need a more inclusive view of moral personhood.

Collective Action & Climate Change

Nevin Chellappah says we can’t dodge responsibility by our effects being small.

The Mediation of Touch

A conversation between Emma Jones and Luce Irigaray.

Macmurray on Relationship

Jeanne Warren presents aspects of John Macmurray’s philosophy of the personal.

Quantum Physics & Indian Philosophy

Punit Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar Varshney look into entangled worlds.

Alchemy, Mining, Speculation & Experimentation

Okan Nurettin Okur investigates the philosophy of chemistry.

Can AI Teach Our Grandmothers To Suck Eggs?

Louis Tempany wonders whether the problem is with the machines or with us.

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

John P. Irish considers some principles of history through the history of a historian.

The London Magazine – October/November 2025

THE LONDON MAGAZINE (April 2, 2025): The latest issue features…. 

Essay | The Aesthetic Life by Zsófia Paulikovics

Essays

‘Several broadly millennial acquaintances confess that reading the book made them feel a sort of sickening recognition.’

Essay | No Designated Venue: An Oral History of London’s Music and Poetry Scenes

Yasmina Snyder spoke to writers, poets, musicians and event organisers based in London about the connections between live music and poetry, and the spaces that host them.

Essay | Why Magazines Fail by Tristram Fane Saunders

‘There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines. In the last two years, an alarming number have vanished into that second-hand bookshop in the sky. Each leaves the world a little quieter, a little poorer.’

Reason Magazine – November 2025 Preview

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REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Culture War Police State’

Culture War Police State

From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.

‘Botched’ Drug Raids Show How Prohibition Invites Senseless Violence

The war on drugs authorizes police conduct that otherwise would be readily recognized as criminal.

How Civilizations Lose Their Spark—and How We Might Keep Ours

Golden ages teach us a lot about what makes civilizations rise and fall.

Trump’s War on Chocolate: ‘There’s No Way for Us To Source This Domestically’

American chocolatiers need imports, and tariffs help no one.

NATIONAL REVIEW – NOVEMBER 2025

NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Trump Effect’

“If President Donald Trump’s careers in real estate development, television, and now politics have taught us anything, it is that he likes to leave his mark (and his name) on everything he touches,” Christine Rosen writes in the new issue of National Review magazine. “Some of those marks, like the profusion of gilt ornaments and gold, Trump-branded coasters in the Oval Office, will almost certainly be removed by future presidents. Others, like the proposed construction of a White House ballroom or his plan to build a ‘Garden of Heroes’ featuring statues of great Americans, are more likely to become permanent parts of the White House and National Mall.”

The Trump Effect: On the Rule of Law

A country in which law is king asks not whether government hardball works but whether it is legal. Andrew C. McCarthy

The Trump Effect: On Our Alliances

U.S. interests aren’t advanced when America’s allies are less confident in Washington and more inclined to accommodate regional bullies. Noah Rothman

The Trump Effect: On Popular Culture

For much of the last decade, Hollywood has been making the same statement: Trump is bad. But they had no idea how to beat him