by Sean Reilly | May 8, 2008
The notion and shape of ‘the land’ means many things to many people, as the contradictory responses to this 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel are showing. For some it looks like triumph, for others it betokens tragedy. To people who...
by Sean Reilly | May 1, 2008
Since becoming prime minister, Gordon Brown has fended off accusations of ‘kitchen cabinet’ government with remarkable ease. He has done so mainly by putting some of those who previously sat round the hearth into the real Cabinet and gathering a new galley crew. But...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 16, 2008
Should anything be able to thwart the will of the people expressed through freely chosen and accountable representative institutions? This has long been one of the limit testing questions for modern political theorists. Answer ‘no’ and you invite the nightmare of a...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 26, 2008
To paraphrase Augustine, and subsequently John Caputo, “what is it that we love when we love our God?” I’m constantly amazed by what some people, both non-religious and religious, assume I must be committing myself to in order to “believe in...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
As death continues to do its worst we find ourselves living in a ‘long Saturday’, suspended irresolvably, it seems, between the threat of despair and the possibility of hope. The former looks substantial and unavoidable. But what of the latter? By its nature, hope is...
