Person: Isaiah Berlin

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Trump exists because the ruling class became smug and distant

The fashionable attack on Trump-ology as fascism has enough basis to be credible, and sufficient foundation to inculcate fear, writes Gerard Howlin. 

Wed, 18 Jul, 2018

Guiding us into the light: A look at modern philosophy

Enlightenment thinking from less that 400 years ago transformed how we think ourselves to be human. JP O’Malley meets Anthony Gottlieb to discuss its ramifications

Sat, 31 Dec, 2016

Hume, the latter-day Parnell, has earned the right to be set in stone

IT’S easy to be snide about RTÉ’s Ireland’s Greatest Figures: far too many people born in the 1970s, a blank as far as the world of science is concerned, very few people who have actually made any money, no one of an identifiably unionist persuasion, and so on.

Wed, 27 Oct, 2010