Editor in chief
Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Compassion as Weakness?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The moral status of compassion in political life reveals how societies understand authority, fear, security, […]
Could Large Language Models Replace Voters, Politicians, Lawyers and Judges?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The rapid emergence of large language models has revived an old philosophical inquiry: whether political […]
The Prospects of a Second War between Israel and Iran
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The possibility of a second full-scale war between Israel and Iran has become one of […]
Loss of Russian refinery capacity
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries have created two very different numbers: a large headline share […]
Are Large Language Models Conscious?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly the Philosophical Investigations, reshaped the philosophical landscape by […]
The Russian Military Formation Rubikon
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Amongst the many experimental and improvised formations that have emerged from the Russian war effort […]
The effect of US Russia sanctions upon Serbia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor On 22 October 2025 the US administration designated Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and […]
How to Speak to an Artificial Intelligence Large Language Model
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The rapid ascendancy of artificial intelligence in the form of large language models has created […]
How government spyware became everyone’s problem
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor In recent years the notion of government surveillance has evolved from a murky but distant […]
The Flamingo missile
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The FP-5 “Flamingo” has arrived on the theatre of war at a juncture when Kyiv […]
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