Tag Archives: Philosophy
The New Criterion – March 2024 Preview

The New Criterion – The March 2024 issue features:
Israel’s eternal dilemma by Victor Davis Hanson
Enrique Gómez Carrillo by Anthony Daniels
The singularity of speech by Wilfred M. McClay
A life in ballet by Peter Martins
New poems by Amit Majmudar, James Matthew Wilson & Michael Casper
Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine February 2024
Philosophy Now Magazine (February/March 2024) – The new issue features ‘Irish Philosophy’ – Pure Philosophy, No Blarney; Steven Pinker – On Violence and Metaphors…
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and a popular writer on linguistics and evolutionary psychology. Angela Tan interviews him about politics, language, death, and reasons to be optimistic.
Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy
Tim Madigan travels through time to seek the essential nature of Irish thought.
Irish Philosophy & Me
Cathy Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.
Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform
Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.
Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics
Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.
The New Criterion – February 2024 Preview
The New Criterion – The February 2024 issue features:
The importance of Homer by Joshua T. Katz
Galaxy brains by Gary Saul Morson
The Thames: river of destinies by Jeremy Black
“Breakfast Special”: a new story by Woody Allen
New poems by Nicholas Friedman, Jessica Hornik & Michael Spence
Essays & Reviews: The Point Magazine – Winter 2024
The Point Magazine (December 17, 2023) – The latest issue features ‘Entering History’ – Leave it to Zadie Smith to include a political Rorschach test in her latest novel; ‘Within the Pretense of No Pretense’ – Technology was the wonder of our age. It seemed to promise us power, and we took this power for our own; Venice Architecture Biennale – The city of Venice may very well be, as the architecture theorist Manfredo Tafuri once claimed, “an unbearable challenge to the world of modernity,”, and more….
Entering History
Leave it to Zadie Smith to include a political Rorschach test in her latest novel. In one of The Fraud’s pivotal encounters, set in 1875, […]
Within the Pretense of No Pretense
Technology was the wonder of our age. It seemed to promise us power, and we took this power for our own
The New Criterion – January 2024 Preview
The New Criterion – January 2024 issue:
A stately setting by Myron Magnet
The Loeb Platos by Mark F. McClay
The peace women by Peter Baehr
Hopper horrors at the Whitney by Gail Levin
New poems by Peter Vertacnik
Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine January 2024
Philosophy Now Magazine (December 2023/January 2024) – The new issue features Freewill versus Determinism – Are we free to choose? Or is Everything Fixed In Advance?; Materialism, Freedom and Ethics; Žižek on Cancel Culture; Spinoza, Hume and other Determinists, and more…
Spinoza & Other Determinists
Myint Zan compares different ways of denying free will.
What Is Free Will?
Grant Bartley wants to know what the problem with freedom is all about.
Criticising Strawson’s Compatibilism
Nurana Rajabova is wary of an attempt to dismiss determinism to keep free will.
Materialism, Freedom & Ethics
Philip Badger constructs a materialist ethical theory, with the help of John Rawls.
The Will Is Not Free: You Have To Earn It
Basil Gala on what it takes to free ourselves from our formative factors.
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion — Dec 2023
The New Criterion – December 2023 issue:
Art a special section
Absinthe minded by Barnaby Conrad III
The three faces of Lafayette by Michele H. Bogart
Matisse & Derain: a study in contrasts by James Panero
Rodin & Michelangelo: a speculation by Eric Gibson
A German restoration drama by Michael J. Lewis
Notes on “Le Serf” by William Tucker
Thirties at the Met by Karen Wilkin
New poems by Kieron Winn & Richard Tillinghast
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion — Nov 2023
The New Criterion – November 2023 issue:
The burden of the humanities by Wilfred M. McClay
A lyrical populist revolt by Victor Davis Hanson
Blanquette de Bard by Anthony Daniels
Polymorphous Peretz by Myron Magnet
New poems by David Mason & Ian Pople
Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine Oct/Nov 2023
Philosophy Now Magazine (October/November 2023) – The new issue features Hannah Arendt – the Complexities of Loving and the Banality of Evil; What Happened to Philosophy?; The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry Into Human Freedom and more…
Hannah Arendt & the Complexities of Loving
Jack Pemment considers the strange attraction between two deep minds.
Hannah Arendt & the Banality of Evil
Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt’s explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.
THE LIFE PHILOSOPHICAL
What is the Philosophical Experience?
Eldar Sarajlic philosophically considers what it is to do philosophy.
Is Progress Possible In Philosophy?
Mathis Bitton suggests three ways that philosophy progresses.
Why Write Philosophy?
George Sher writes some philosophy to tell us.
What Happened to Philosophy?
Alexander Jeuk says overspecialization, academic debate focusing, and simplistic argument structures, are prominent missteps in modern philosophy.