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Open Access 07-03-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

The Voice of the People: Populism and Donald Trump’s Use of Informal Voice

Many studies have examined characteristic verbal aspects of Donald J. Trump’s political communication, from his authoritarian rhetoric to his preference for short words and simple sentences, as expressions of his populism. This article focuses on …

Author:
Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen

01-03-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Christopher Janaway, Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will to Life

Author:
Julian Young

27-02-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Point-n-Kill: Label Metaphors in Heterosexual Peer Networks in Nigeria

Male and female partners in heterosexual peer networks in Calabar metropolis, Cross River State, south-eastern Nigeria, use reciprocal label metaphors to characterize each other in negative (or positive) ways. This article explores how sexual …

Author:
Eyo O. Mensah

21-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

Oxford University Press, 2023. 72 pp. ISBN: 978-0197690888
Author:
Simon Blackburn

21-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Andrew Gamble, After Brexit and Other Essays

Bristol University Press, 2021, pp. 293, ISBN: 981-1-5292-1709-4
Author:
Pat Thane

13-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

Oxford University Press, 2023, 72 pp., ISBN: 978-0197690888
Author:
Paul Bloomfield

07-02-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Socrates’ Critique of Writing

This essay discusses the critique of writing that Socrates presents in Plato’s Phaedrus. It argues that because he conceives of writing as a kind of technology (in Greek, a technê), this passage prefigures many of the conversations now taking …

Author:
David Roochnik

06-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

Oxford University Press, 2023, 72 pp., ISBN: 978-0197690888
Author:
Paul Seabright

05-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

Oxford University Press, 2023, 72 pp., ISBN: ‎978-0197690888
Author:
Richard Kraut

05-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

Oxford University Press, 2023. 72 pp., ISBN 9780197690888
Author:
John Cottingham

05-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality and Moral Progress

Oxford University Press, 2023. 72 pp. ISBN: 978-0197690888
Author:
Johnny Lyons

25-01-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

The Heterogeneity of Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Poverty Reduction in Tanzania: A Multidimensional Statistical Inquiry

Persistent poverty poses a formidable challenge for the developing world, and Tanzania is no exception. Despite earnest efforts spanning decades to implement poverty reduction strategies, Tanzania grapples with the complexity of poverty within its …

Authors:
Felician Andrew Kitole, Jennifer Kasanda Sesabo

16-01-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Jon Cruddas, A Century of Labour

Polity Press, 2024, 288 pp., ISBN: 9781509558346
Author:
Pat Thane

11-01-2024 | COMMENTARY

Why Did Plato Write Dialogues?

Author:
David Roochnik

29-11-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter

Princeton University Press, 2023, 464 pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-23786-2—Fully Updated and Expanded Edition
Author:
Steven L. Johnson

16-10-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

John Sellars, Aristotle: Understanding the World’s Greatest Philosopher

Pelican, 2023, 144 pp., ISBN: 978-0241615638
Author:
Richard Kraut

16-10-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Ben Ansell, Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern Word – and How to Escape Them

Viking: 2023, 343 pp. ISBN: 978-0-241-51763-5
Author:
Michael Laver

02-10-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Ben Ansell, Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World – and How to Escape Them

Viking, 2023, 343 pp., ISBN:978-0241517628

The thesis of the book can be set out relatively concisely. Politics will not end but does not have to fail. Ansell holds that we constantly fall into five traps that, individually and collectively, serve to frustrate us over the medium to long …

Author:
Robert Singh

21-09-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

Penguin Books, 2023, 272 pp., ISBN: 978-0141999098
Author:
Pat Thane

Open Access 28-03-2023 | Publisher Correction

Publisher Correction to: Conspiracy Theories

Author:
Quassim Cassam