ALL of 7 results for "Philosophy"
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What are friends for?
1986 • 1,311 words • Reportage & Criticism
Love knows no laws, and nor does friendship. Sexual relations may be subject to legislation, but there is no society with laws to govern relations… more»
The murderer of Muswell Hill
21 February 1985 • 3,202 words • Reportage & Criticism
Murderers—even serial murderers—are frequently reported by acquaintances to be civil, diligent, pleasant in manner, if a little reserved, normal in appearance, cultivated to a degree,… more»
Invasion of the
body snatchers
30 September 1982 • 2,506 words • Reportage & Criticism
The south-eastern Nuba are one of a number of Nuba groups–partly Islamised but largely unarabised–who live in the southern part of the province of Kordofan,… more»
Consorting with beasts
22 June 2016 • 956 words • Reportage & Criticism
Considering what we do routinely to our fellow creatures—incarcerating them, castrating them, filching their mother’s milk, slaughtering them, and eating their flesh—practices that are all… more»
A visit to the Panopticon
January 1996 • 1,673 words • City of Words
On New Year’s Day we took the Comet to the Isle of Youth. While we were still far off – in a stretch of mangroves… more»
Fast food, gay sex and the tearoom trade
9 November 1998 • 1,639 words • City of Words
The language of lovers, from the Song of Solomon onwards, is filled with… more»
You can’t build clouds
9 June 1997 • 1,281 words • City of Words
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s sister’s house in Vienna is a stark but stately concatenation of cuboid blocks which now forms part of the Bulgarian embassy. It was… more»
