Iain King evaluates the life and work of journalist, politician, and firebrand Tom Paine.…
Iain King looks as the philosophy of Emperor Marcus Aurelius One of Rome’s most remarkable rulers, Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is commonly…
Iain King explores the military career of Chairman Mao China’s official view of Mao is that he was ‘70% right and 30%…
‘To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.’ John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971…
‘War is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfil our will. War is an act of violence pushed to…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King discovers a First World War artilleryman with a revolutionary treatise in his backpack. Born in 1889 into the…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King continues his series on the relationship between war and thought. Was the founder of modern philosophy a spy…
Iain King takes a hard look at how the First World War turned Hitler into a Fascist. The ‘Great War’ had a…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King begins a new series looking at how great thinkers were shaped by war. He begins with Socrates, the…