Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines everything

Your social situation is a matter of luck, but then so are your underlying skills and characterThe philosopher Galen Strawson has a knack for translating big, abstract questions – the kind of things you might assume were of little interest outside philosophy lecture halls – into puzzles so personally troubling I can’t continue with my day until I’ve figured out where I stand on them, or at least been distracted by a sleepless baby or enticing