JP O’Malley
JP O’ Malley is a journalist and freelance writer based, until recently, in Lviv in western Ukraine. His work has appeared in many publications, including the Spectator, the Economist, the Daily Beast, New African, the American Interest and Times of Israel
Articles by JP O’Malley
Martin Wolf on the crisis of democratic capitalism
"The west has failed with Russia. We cannot fail with China"
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‘‘Many progressives have abandoned basic liberal values’’
We talk with Francis Fukuyama about why he believes liberalism today is badly in need of articulation and celebration.
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Will Russian war criminals be brought to justice?
Russian combatants are already being sentenced in Ukraine, but justice for the alleged war crimes being recorded requires an immense international effort.
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Leaving Lviv
An Irish writer reflects on fleeing his home in Ukraine.
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Q&A: Claire Tomalin
The famed biographer take us through the life and times of H.G. Wells, and explains what the secret is to telling the stories of others.
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Q&A: Jonathan Franzen
We spoke with the writer Jonathan Franzen on civil liberties and the politics of denialism around climate change.
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‘‘We are due an environmental, financial and geopolitical crisis. What do we do to save the world?’’
Q&A with Ann Pettifor, political economist and author of "The Case for the Green New Deal".
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“You are beginning to see an empathetic AI, which understands what it means to be human”
Q&A with mathematician and author Marcus Du Sautoy.
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“Science says you are not the pinnacle of evolution”
Q&A with evolutionary biologist and Humanists UK president Alice Roberts.
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“You can explain art and love using science, but it won’t tell you what they are like”
Q&A with geneticist and author Adam Rutherford.
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“Humankind is unique in its incapacity to learn from experience”
Q&A with political philosopher John Gray,
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“People cannot say they did not know what was happening”
Q&A with journalist and author Rania Abouzeid.
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“The market gives the illusion of being egalitarian”
Q&A with academic and Marxism expert David Harvey.
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“Solutions exist, and we can find better ones”
Q&A with linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker.
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“It’s vitally important that feminists draw from good science”
Q&A with science author Angela Saini.
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‘‘Saying something is a miracle is a failure of imagination’’
Q&A with philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett.
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“We need critical reflection, individually as well as in the company of others”
Q&A with Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen.
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‘‘Turkey has never exactly been a heaven for writers, but they always existed’’
Q&A: Ece Temelkuran's new book tries to explain Turkey's current turmoil to a global audience.
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“The gap between rich and poor isn’t just about the billionaires”
A Q&A with moral philosopher Peter Singer.
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‘‘There is no such thing as the fall of the Roman Empire’’
A Q&A with Mary Beard.
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Q&A: Tony Benn
As the final volume of his diaries are published, the icon of the British left talks to JP O'Malley about how he'd like to be remembered
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The rise of public man
Michael Sandel is the “moral rock star” every politician wants to cosy up to. JP O’Malley finds out why
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Your cousin the scientist
JP O’Malley has a family reunion with the geneticist Steve Jones
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Tech heretic
Jaron Lanier is a digital pioneer who has collaborated with Microsoft and Google. So why is he warning that technology is making us dependent and redundant? JP O’Malley logs on
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The fiction of humanity: An interview with John Gray
John Gray is one of our most celebrated contemporary thinkers, and an atheist. So why is he in constant, tetchy, conflict with prominent humanists – are their arguments really so incompatible? JP O’Malley finds out
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