Contemporary Articles

This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Live Q&A with Iain

Live Q&A with Iain

MEMBERS ONLY

The live Q&A Zoom session with Iain will take place on Thursday 3rd November 2022 from 6:00 to 7:45pm UK time.

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The Divided Brain Conference Retreat

The Divided Brain Conference Retreat

Saturday 8th October – Tuesday 11th October 2022 Tewkesbury Park Hotel – UK

This four day event has been organised by Field & Field and aims to bring together like-minded people immersed in the work and ideas of Dr Iain McGilchrist

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Scottish Daily Mail

Scottish Daily Mail

Genius from Skye who’s written one of the most important books EVER published.
By Jonathan Brocklebank, April 2, 2022

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Insights from ‘The Matter With Things’

Insights from ‘The Matter With Things’

Why is this worth your time? Regular readers will be aware that I think Dr. Iain McGilchrist is one of the most consequential minds of our times. Last month he published a monster 1,400 page book, The Matter With Things. It’s his masterpiece, and an attempt to comprehensively expand on a thesis that has changed my life. I had the privilege of interviewing him last week.

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Adam Smith on Self-Deceit

Adam Smith on Self-Deceit

The University of Virginia Center for Politics, led by Larry Sabato, provides polling results that show deep social, political, and psychological divides between Biden voters and Trump voters. Nowadays, it is common to think that large swaths of other people must be in denial.

In the old days, we argued good policy. Now we theorize one another.

Adam Smith had things to say about denial and self-deceit. Here I draw exclusively from The Theory of Moral Sentiments.  Applications are in your hands—and breast.

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Falling Into The Song Of Gaia

Falling Into The Song Of Gaia

Enchantment is essentially an experience of wonder, and like the experience itself, the subject is hard to pin down. So think of this essay instead as a wander through one corner of it, with glimpses farther afield.

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Tocqueville’s Dystopias: The Bad And The Very Bad

Tocqueville’s Dystopias: The Bad And The Very Bad

Daniel B. Klein September 6, 2021[A version of this piece appeared originally at City Journal.]     Alexis de Tocqueville   “The entire book that you are going to read,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in the Introduction of Democracy in America, Volume One...

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