I have always liked in French the word esprit, and this is not very surprising for a philosopher. In 2014,…
Category: Politics, Philosophy and Religion
By Heike Henderson What can contemporary techno thrillers tell us about possible future developments in the areas of surveillance, data…
British History
“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square
Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…
At the end of his first year of what would turn out to be thirteen years teaching at Harvard, Alfred…
Trips into history. Journeys to the future. Encounters in the present with visitors from the future or past. There are…
Even as strides toward gender equality have been made in the last century, the notion that gender is a binary…
Does ethics need religion? Do we need to believe in God to be good? These are standard questions in moral…
James Williams argues that one of the main lessons of the search for an egalitarian sublime is that exceptional achievements in sports should not be called ‘sublime’.
What is The nobile Officium? It had previously been regarded as obscure, and few people had even heard of it, but that was all set to change with Brexit.
International Relations
A forgotten rivalry in the Caucasus: 30 years of Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict
Laurence Broers writes on the 30-year Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict: one of the most embittered territorial disputes in the world.