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About Mark Vernon

Mark Vernon is the author of The Philosophy of Friendship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Articles by Mark Vernon

Wednesday 24th September

A debt in the life

The bursting of the credit boom is a lesson in the human as well as the financial cost of debt
Thursday 15th November

The bad faith of the secular age

Charles Taylor makes the new atheist orthodoxy look shallow

Wednesday 24th October

Social networks: after privacy, beyond friendship

The human costs and confusions of online identity
Thursday 8th March

The life of the child: being friends, being good

The experience of children and their capacity for friendship raises philosophical questions about how the good life can be realised, says Mark Vernon.
Friday 29th December

The politics of friendship

When friendship is present in public life, the modern political world is suspicious. It needs to relearn a lesson from classical Greece, says Mark Vernon.
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