“Digital monsters are our contemporary folklore”
Momo, the Slender Man, a jpg that drives its viewers insane: the online world is crawling with monsters. Dr Vivian Asimos has made it her mission to understand them.
Ideas
Dismantling the Empire
Two new books – "Insurgent Empire" and "Hostile Environment" – take on Britain's national myths, confronting their racist legacy.
“We needed a book about humanism as an active approach to life”
Q&A with Alice Roberts and Andrew Copson on "The Little Book of Humanism: Universal lessons on finding purpose, meaning and joy".
What is the meaning of good health?
Many of us are currently self-diagnosing, but as philosopher Georges Canguilhem argued, disease is not a fixed category.
‘‘There is serious unfinished business in humanism”
Q&A with Raymond Tallis
Stop talking about loneliness
The pandemic has accelerated a trend ongoing for centuries. Let’s call it what it is: alienation.
Book review: Spinoza’s Ethics
Before writing her realist masterpieces, the novelist George Eliot spent much of her time translating the philosophy of Spinoza.
Forever Charlie?
Five years after the deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine, trials have begun. Is it still meaningful to say "Je Suis Charlie"?
“Liberalism’s future now rests on a single question”
Q&A with William Davies, author of "This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain".
Anti-natalism is global and growing
The decision to not have kids on ethical grounds is no longer a fringe, Western trend