Eilís Ward writes: In his essay on ideas of selfhood and egocide in philosophical thought (Dublin Review of Books, Autumn 2024), Joseph Rivera asks why my book Self takes a leap from critique of neoliberal selfhood to Buddhist accounts of the same. A large part of the answer comes from my years teaching politics in […]

Dublin Review of Books

27.10.2024

The Monster in your Pocket - DRB

John Fanning writes: During the last decade there has been widespread coverage of survey results and medical reports dealing with an increase in mental health issues among young people, or Gen Z as the headline writers prefer. Little surprise then that a substantial new book on the subject, The Anxious Generation, by social psychologist and […]

Dublin Review of Books

03.11.2024

Firing up the Crazies - DRB

Frank Freeman writes: I want to say to Trump supporters: ‘I’m sorry, but I won’t vote for a man who mocks handicapped people, who calls dead veterans “suckers and losers”, who says if you’re rich and famous you can sexually assault women and they won’t do anything about it, who sleeps with a porn star […]

Dublin Review of Books

15.11.2024

Boston Diary - DRB

James Moran writes: In November 2008 I was in New York City when Barack Obama was elected. The city felt absolutely electric. I can remember so clearly how, the day after the result, a young man serving sandwiches in a coffee shop dropped absolutely all of the behavioural codes of New York when I ordered […]

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Egocide and the Self - DRB

The Monster in your Pocket - DRB

Firing up the Crazies - DRB

Boston Diary - DRB

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