I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.
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A meditation on time and the pressure to use it productively
The European dream of perpetual peace
Complementing science with tribal strategies for human survival
The afterlife of Christianity after the disappearance of religious belief
A Northern novelist probes the reality behind the Border poll scenario
Peter Thiel and the tech giants’ pursuit of political power
Term report: wealth, good; population, v. good; equality, could do better
Gaelic Ireland’s many encounters with continental European culture
Multiple British fractures leave England alone to feast on its past
An argument against pessimism and in support of deep human potential
