John Baldacchino

John Baldacchino

John Baldacchino is an academic, essayist and visual artist. He specializes in art, education, philosophy, and Mediterranean studies. He is the author of numerous books, refereed and journalistic articles. Though his books are mostly focused on academic themes, he is also the author of volumes that reflect on Maltese thought and politics. These include Democracy Without Confession: Philosophical Conversations on the Maltese Political Imaginary (Allied Press 2015, with Kenneth Wain), Sejjieħ il-Ħsieb: Limitu u Ħelsien (KKM 2020) and Secular Reflections. On a nation’s anomaly (Midsea 2024).

Articles by this author
A French farce: Malta’s strange politics of abdication
Opinions
John Baldacchino
It is up to voters to decide whether Metsola’s choice amounts to a form of arrogance or indeed a sense of global responsibility
Barbarism and democracy
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John Baldacchino
If we want justice for Daphne, we need to begin to recognise that what murdered her is still manifest in the indifference by those who continue to deny the paralysis by which...
Bread, circuses and human rights
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Bald men fighting over a comb
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‘Serving Kant’ to war
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Two Charlies and a secular quandary
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British Labour, its leader and its future
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A referendum’s gamble
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Diversity and the freedom of interpretation
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Left, right and centre in Malta’s 40-year-old Republic
Governing by listening… and by failing on spin
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Diversity, liberty and solidarity
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Time to back off?
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Of accents, governments and oppositions
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