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The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is “a more astounding miracle than walking on water.” The word she used for meeting the needs of the sufferer is not love or charity, but justice. Today, there is plenty of research that…

The Canadian author on mountain running to George Eliot, powerful reminders from Omar El Akkad and the translation that brought Homer’s Iliad to life

Corporate academia, a crumbling society and student pretensions are all skewered in this darkly comic novel

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul.

Simone Weil’s life illustrates the capacity to give up the things we feel we’re owed – such as a carbon-intensive consumer-driven lifestyle

Wolfram Eilenberger’s group biography of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil illuminates how the horrors of the 1930s informed the philosophers’ worldviews – with the ‘saintly’ Weil the star of the show

The complicated lives and questing minds of Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil

As Australia prepares to vote in a referendum that could grant First Nations people a Voice in our own country, I am confronted with the suffering of my people, writes Stan Grant.

What can a 2500-year-old discipline tell us about how to live better in the modern world?