Our Story
About Burke's Review
The Founding Story
Serious thinking doesn't begin at university.
Burke's Review began with a frustration all three of us recognised: that sixth-form students who think seriously about philosophy have nowhere to put that thinking. Essays written for teachers, arguments developed over lunch, ideas that deserved a proper hearing — they disappeared. We wanted to build something that didn't just tolerate student philosophy but took it seriously. That's what Burke's Review is.
Eddy, Musa, and Zac met through their shared passion for philosophy and the broader humanities at Eton. Burke's Review was co-founded in 2026 by three Year 12 students brought together by a shared conviction that sixth-form students are capable of genuinely original philosophical thought — and that they deserve a serious platform to share it.
Our editorial standard is high. We do not publish everything we receive. What we look for is not stylistic polish or citation counts — it is the quality of the argument: a genuine philosophical question, taken seriously, pursued with rigour, and answered with honesty about its limits. That is what philosophy is. That is what we want to publish.
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The Founders
Meet the Team
Eddy Thom
Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Eddy founded Burke's Review to give sixth-form students the rigorous platform their philosophical work deserves. He has a particular interest in political philosophy and ethics, and in the relationship between philosophical argument and public life.
Musa Abd Halim
Co-Founder & Deputy Editor
Musa brings a sharp analytical focus to the review's editorial standards. He is particularly interested in jurisprudence, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of language — and in the question of how philosophical reasoning shapes legal and institutional thinking.
Zac Shield
Co-Founder & Editorial Director
Zac oversees the review's editorial vision and category structure. He has a deep interest in metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, and continental ethics — and in the enduring questions about meaning, existence, and value that philosophy alone takes seriously.
For Students
Why submit to Burke's Review?
Build your intellectual record
A published article in Burke's Review is something you can cite on a UCAS personal statement and discuss in university interviews. It demonstrates independent philosophical thought beyond the A-level syllabus.
Sharpen your argument
Writing for editorial review — rather than a classroom — forces precision and rigour. Our editors will engage seriously with your argument and push it further.
Join a community
Burke's Review connects sixth-form students who care about ideas. Your work will be read by students at schools across the country who share your interests.
It is completely free
Submitting is free. Reading is free. We are a student publication, run by students, for students. No paywall and no submission fee — ever.
The Name
Why Edmund Burke?
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) was one of the most consequential political philosophers in the English-speaking tradition — a defender of ordered liberty, a critic of revolutionary abstraction, and a thinker who insisted that ideas have consequences that outlast the people who hold them. His Reflections on the Revolution in France remains one of the most challenging works in the canon: a case for tradition made with the full force of philosophical argument.
We named the publication after Burke not because we are Burkean — our editorial stance has no party — but because Burke represents something we admire: the willingness to engage seriously with the largest questions of political life and to do so with intellectual courage. He was, in the deepest sense, a public philosopher. So are we.
Mission
Philosophy is not a spectator sport.
Burke's Review exists because the standard pipeline for philosophical thought — university, graduate school, academic journal — excludes most of the people who are genuinely thinking. The sixth-form student who has spent a weekend working through Rawls, who has written three drafts of an argument about free will, who has something original and rigorous to say — she has nowhere to put it. Until now.
We were founded on a simple conviction: that the age of a thinker tells you nothing about the quality of their thinking. The history of philosophy is full of young people who produced work of lasting consequence. We believe that tradition continues. We are here to publish it.