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To the core
A devastating loss can shatter the façade we put up for others, exposing our deepest, rawest...
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Sabine Hossenfelder: searching for beauty in mathematics
Does mathematics have a ‘beauty’ problem? Sabine Hossenfelder explains why searching for elegance in nature stifles...
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Philosophers and other animals
Christine Korsgaard argues that we can extend a Kantian moral framework to include other animals. But...
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A small antelope horn
The theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli sits by the fire with Hazda hunter-gatherers, pondering our evolutionary pastBy...
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Exiles on Main Street
To respect exiles as real and important political actors, we should get over casting them as...
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Conor and Kobe
A poignant reflection on celebrity, mourning and Kobe Bryant’s death, crafted from just a few intimate...
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Reading John Gray in war
As a soldier, I was hard-wired to seek meaning and purpose. Gray’s philosophy helped me unhook...
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The right right thing to do
The ethical life means being good to ourselves, to others, and to the world. But how...
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How Big Tech betrayed us
Surveillance capitalism tracks everything we do and say, and sells that data. To save ‘free markets’,...
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What Gordon Parks saw
Gentle, persuasive acts of protest: Gordon Parks used his camera as a ‘weapon’ for empathy with...
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The abuses of Popper
A powerful cadre of scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They...
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The penis: a life
Boned, spined, spiked, corkscrewed or double-headed: why did so much variety arise when a simple tube...
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How vulnerable is the world?
Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilisation might be invented. How far...
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Huntsville station
‘It’s a trip just being out’: at the local Greyhound bus station with newly released men...
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Pause. Reflect. Think
Susan Stebbing’s little Pelican book on philosophy had a big aim: giving everybody tools to think...