The End of the Beginning by Douglas Penick

We want to defend fundamental liberal values from attacks coming from the so-called woke ‘left’ as well as from the pseudo-populist ‘right’...

The anti-abortionists have deployed an effective strategy, keeping a relentless focus on the ethical question at the core of issue...

The more nonsensical, the better...

Social media are a deliberation-themed video game...

Foucault was long concerned with traditional philosophical questions which, in the final years of his life, he explored through classical texts...

Where the emphasis is upon acceleration and instantaneity, longer term thinking is itself a form of resistance...

Lacan himself paved the way for my articulation of his mistake...

Alas, it is not in my (current) course budget to arrange for my students to go whooshing about on the flying trapeze...

No one can ever really know the past. Trust me. You can’t even really remember it...

The Word was always there, and so, inside my body, I never felt alone. Now, postchurch, I turn to poems and songs in place of Bible verses...

Details within details within details. That is the nature of the hyperlink...

I have to consider the wellness of the whole before I consider my own interests and needs. This is the culture that has been passed on to me by my ancestors...

The satisfactions of meaning are preferable to transient pleasures or happiness. Meaning can last to the end of life...

Cancelling as it’s practiced now, particularly when it is a first rather than a last resort, is a product of, and is perhaps an inevitable extension of, individualism...

What might be revealed in any exploration of the meaning of love in our lives?