Mark Kingwell

Mark Kingwell is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His books include A Civil Tongue (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995), Dreams of Millennium (Penguin, 1996), Practical Judgments (University of Toronto Press, 2002) and Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams (Yale University Press, 2006).

A question of moral legitimacy

Michael Lind's analysis of the current impasse in American foreign policy is characteristically lucid, and I find both his optimism (the three-level chess scenario) and his pessimism (the

By Mark Kingwell

/ 16 Feb 2007

The human factor

In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the com

By Mark Kingwell

/ 22 Dec 2005