Unthinkable: Many of us aspire to wealth, status and titles such as ‘president’, even when our vocation lies elsewhere

Should art be useful and retrain our brains or is it more important than that?

Plato throws down a challenge to us all on how to engage in free and open-ended public debate

Unthinkable: Philosopher Simone Weil died in 1943 aged 34, but she may have had the answer many of us are seeking

Unthinkable: Better start sucking up to your microwave

Unthinkable: Parents may be partly to blame for heightened anxiety among under-30s

Unthinkable: It’s only a few years since the last global economic crash. Will the next one be worse?

Unthinkable: Toxic positivity may be exacerbating a sense that we’re losing in life

Unthinkable: Irish missionaries have left an example of positive evangelisation, even if we are seeing the last of them

Unthinkable: In an era when crooks and despots cling to power at all costs, Ireland could model a different type of democracy by picking a president at random

Unthinkable: To create a shared future on this island, and internationally, we must move beyond uncritically celebrating the actions of any particular tribe

Self-help books spoon-feed us ‘lessons for life’. But are we inspired to ask better questions?

Unthinkable: Moral superiority in Ireland over ‘populist’ uprisings in the US and UK ignores how we’ve become slaves to global capital

Unthinkable: Hope is not a strategy when it comes to tackling urgent challenges like climate change

Unthinkable: We should think more about the consequences of actions and less about perceived character flaws in others