Culture and Ideas
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An Idiosyncratic Memoir
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Not Thinking Like a Liberal is precisely Geuss’s attempt to explain why liberalism continues to sit uncomfortably with him.
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Interview with Samuel Moyn: The Carlyle Lectures on Cold War Liberalism
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Ming Kit Wong speaks to Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University, about his series of lectures on Cold War Liberalism.
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What Transhumanism Means for Our Future
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What if we could easily cure all diseases and disabilities? How about being able to run 100m in less than 2 seconds? Could we make human beings indestructible or even immortal? Some of these changes may be within our reach, thanks to human enhancement and transhumanism. I’ll consider what the possible implications are. What are…
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The History of Orientalism and the Rise of British Nationalism
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As never-ending wars and resilient dictatorships plague the Middle East, coupled with the destabilizing aftershocks of Western colonialism, refugees are fleeing the region by the thousands, seeking shelter and opportunity behind the walls of the European fortress. In response, nationalist parties across the U.K., most prominently Britain’s Independence Party (UKIP), have pushed back on their…
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The Politics of Subscriptions
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If you are a reader of the Oxford Political Review, you may have noticed that as you scroll through your newsfeed you are being invited to subscribe to a variety of periodicals: The Economist will run you £10 per month; The London Review of Books will set you back £12 for 12 issues; and The New Yorker is going for the low, low…
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The Wisdom of Grameen: A Discourse on How Social Business is Pioneering a New Economy
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Our current economic system is focused only on profit maximization. This has not only created an insatiable appetite for growth but has given rise to systemic inequalities and the overexploitation of the environment. The pandemic and recent climate disasters have exposed these problems and call for the need for a new economy. Nobel Laureate Prof.…
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Who’s Really Working from Home? Re-evaluating Housework in a New Virtual Era
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For the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives. With the onset of stay-at-home orders and the closures of schools and office buildings, millions of employees shifted to remote work, which has quickly become a fixture of modern life. However, the transition to remote work for parents and…
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An Interview with Dr Lorna Finlayson
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Political Philosophy & Critique Q: The Value of Political Philosophy. In your 2020 article ‘If This Isn’t Racism, What Is?’, you offer a searing critique of the state of contemporary political philosophy. Drawing on recent debates around immigration, abortion, and the marketisation of higher education, you write that “it seems to me that philosophers vacate the…
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Why on Earth Did Shatner Go to Space?
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Despite what Amazon’s PR department almost desperately tried to make us believe, neither Jeff Bezos nor even William Shatner, Captain Kirk himself, really reached the final frontier. The Kármán Line is, rather, the lowest common denominator of space, a definition based on the ratio of air lift versus Keppler force for the legal purpose of…
