Nigel Warburton's January column for Prospect magazine explores the problems of punishment, identity and memory in the light of the recent trials of American student Amanda Knox and of John Demjanjuk, and John Locke's philosophy of identity.

Nigel Warburton's December column for Prospect magazine explores the controversy over David Nutt's sacking, drugs policy, and what Kant and Sartre might make of the obligation to tell the truth at all times.

Nigel Warburton's November column for Prospect magazine asks how, with people living ever longer, a government can reconcile the pragmatic need to provide with the dignity philosopher's from Confucius and Cicero to the present have hoped to find in old age.

Nigel Warburton's October column for Prospect magazine explores the ethics of releasing the Lockerbie bomber, and whether politicians' hands can ever be entirely clean

Nigel Warburton's September column for Prospect magazine explores Stoicism, cricket, the weather and biomedical enhancement

Jacko and Jean-Paul Sartre: Nigel Warburton explores the links between Michael Jackson's death and existentialism.

Prospect's August edition also includes interviews with Patrick Marber (author of Closer) and Zoe Heller (Notes on a Scandal), and photos of some of the last hunter-gatherers of the Amazon rainforest.

In the light of the BNP's recent electoral success, our resident philosopher Nigel Warburton considers the role of racism in politics and philosophy. How prejudiced were the great philosophers of history?

In this month’s Prospect podcast our resident philosopher Nigel Warburton considers the merits of shame as a motivating force in politics. When politicians are found to have done wrong, should we expect more from them than public apologies and a display of contrition?

Nigel Warburton, our resident philosopher, considers the case for thrift as a virtue in the light of Alistair Darling's budget.