Max Weber
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Are humans losing the ability to be idle?
- Culture
- December 11, 2018, 05:00
Christmas is promoted as a time of rest and idleness but for many of us it’s just another opportunity for work. There are events to organise, presents(...)

Reformation’s lesson can spur Christian faiths to work together
- Opinion
- October 31, 2017, 01:00
Although October 31st, 1517, is usually regarded as the starting point of the Protestant Reformation, with the nailing of the ninety-five theses to th(...)

Man of compassion or savage capitalist? The difficulty of defining Macron
- Europe
- September 13, 2017, 01:00
Four months after his election political commentators are still struggling to classify President Emmanuel Macron. In recent days he has been called a (...)

Arlene Foster and her Democratic Unionists are far too sure of their ‘godly calling’
- Opinion
- March 10, 2017, 01:32
As someone who sees themselves as a unionist, who believes in a shared parliamentary tradition and history, which for all its faults and misappropriat(...)

Half a millennium later the Reformation still shapes our world
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 7, 2017, 01:00
It began 500 years ago this year. It shaped your life and mine, and that of billions of other people since. Yet few realise that anymore. It led to (...)

Egalitarian corporate culture was just a passing fad
- Work
- March 25, 2016, 09:00
When Spotify workers need a new keyboard, they go to a shelf and take one. There are no forms to fill in and no one to ask. There is just a sign sayin(...)

Spotify trusts you; Amazon monitors you
- Work
- March 18, 2016, 11:29
When Spotify workers need a new keyboard, they go to a shelf and take one. There are no forms to fill in and no one to ask. There is just a sign sayi(...)

Special Criminal Court is necessary in flawed justice system
- Opinion
- February 15, 2016, 01:00
The murders of David Byrne and Eddie Hutch snr have pitched the Special Criminal Court into the general election campaign. Minister for Justice Franc(...)

What St Luke would say to Wolfgang Schäuble
- Economy
- July 29, 2015, 05:55
For most of human history the moral opprobrium associated with credit was attached to the lender, not the borrower. Aristotle and Plato poured scorn o(...)

Even Steve Jobs missed a few tricks - Gary Hamel interview
- Business
- October 20, 2014, 01:40
Control and freedom: these two forces are at play during any conversation with Gary Hamel. Finding a balance between them has underpinned much of his (...)