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