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When it comes to homelessness, what we call ‘compassion fatigue’ is something else entirely

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…

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Madeleine Thien: ‘I ran in blizzards and -20C – all I wanted was to listen to Middlemarch’

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

The Guardian - UK

The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators

Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was always bad at math.” I suppress the response, “You are forgiven, my child.”

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Mieko Kawakami: ‘Franz Kafka is my comfort read’

The Japanese author on the humour of Kurt Vonnegut, the joys of James Joyce and translating Beatrix Potter

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Posy Simmonds’s cultural highlights

The cartoonist on inspiring female thinkers, watching giraffes on TV, and the best shop for pencils

The Guardian - UK

Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt 'different' in the world – and changed the way we think

The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes Wolfram Eilenberger in his new book, The Visionaries.

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My Weil by Lars Iyer review – a sharp satire on the state of higher education

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

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Guide to the Classics: Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots

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

The Conversation

The world is burning. Who can convince the comfortable classes of the radical sacrifices needed?

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

The Guardian - AU

The Visionaries review – seers who were shaped by the shadow of war

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 Guardian - UK

The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger review – four women who changed the world

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

The Guardian - UK

As we debate the Voice, I can't think of a more profound meditation than affliction

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.

ABC News

Life Is Hard by Kieran Setiya review – philosophical self-help

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

The Guardian - UK

When tragedy becomes banal: Why news consumers experience crisis fatigue

When Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea on Feb. 24, 2022, the images of war were conveyed to dismayed onlookers around the world. Far from the action, many of us became aware of the unprovoked aggression by reading online coverage or watching TV…

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How an L.A. writer distilled American hope and despair into summer's big literary debut

Seven years ago, when Tess Gunty began to write her debut novel, "The Rabbit Hutch," she was 23, living in New York and experiencing a constant barrage of catcalls when she walked down the street.

The Guardian - UK

No pasarán: anti-fascist slogan takes on new significance in Ukraine crisis

New generation of volunteers are answering Ukraine’s call to join war effort, in echo of Spanish civil war

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