Andrew Gleeson

Andrew Gleeson is a retired Australian philosopher. He makes occasional videos about philosophy and religion on the YouTube channel The Speaking Lions.

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A Voice from the Heart

Legal equality and the politics of disappointment.

Andrew Gleeson

11 Aug 2023 · 14 min read

The First Stone

Philip Schofield and his critics could both learn a lot from Oscar Wilde’s prison memoir.

Andrew Gleeson

8 Jun 2023 · 10 min read

The Inimitable Barry Humphries

Farewell to Australia’s best-known comic and social satirist.

Andrew Gleeson

25 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

Seattle’s Summer of Love

Their goals are not reformist, they are revolutionary—they seek conflict not peace, and they have given scant thought about what they wish to build from the rubble of what they destroy.

Andrew Gleeson

16 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

On the Study of Great Books

Great books require intelligence and judgment, and the exploration of sometimes quite fundamental disagreement, from the outset.

Andrew Gleeson

23 Feb 2020 · 18 min read

The Million-Petalled Flower

He had the gift of producing them by inverting or adapting cliché to give it new life.

Andrew Gleeson

4 Dec 2019 · 15 min read