Fintan O’Toole: The Covid-19 pandemic should be the last hurrah for Irish stoicism

We are at the top of Mount Misery and must endure, but forbearance is not always a virtue

In defence of realism: Idealists excite us but at what cost?

Unthinkable: Reinhold Niebuhr, Obama’s favourite philosopher, has an important message for today

Thinking Anew – Religion can be a source of error as well as truth

2017: a time to opt for sober hope over sour pessimism

We are not powerless to affect our own destinies

I have prayed for Sophie Toscan du Plantier, says Ian Bailey

Bailey says anniversary of French woman’s death casts a cloud over him each Christmas

Paul Krugman: We need politicians to be honest about economy

Clinton economic plan differs from Republicans’ in lack of outlandish assumptions

Human rights work in the face of atrocity: Violence All Around, by John Sifton

Review: Valuable, riveting work founders on a disappointingly reductionist conclusion