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A devastating loss can shatter the façade we put up for others, exposing our deepest, rawest self. A work of art can do the sameBy Julia F ChristensenRead at Aeon

Does mathematics have a ‘beauty’ problem? Sabine Hossenfelder explains why searching for elegance in nature stifles progressBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon

Christine Korsgaard argues that we can extend a Kantian moral framework to include other animals. But her argument failsBy Peter Godfrey-SmithRead at Aeon

The theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli sits by the fire with Hazda hunter-gatherers, pondering our evolutionary pastBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon

To respect exiles as real and important political actors, we should get over casting them as saints, threats or victimsBy Ashwini VasanthakumarRead at Aeon

A poignant reflection on celebrity, mourning and Kobe Bryant’s death, crafted from just a few intimate words among familyBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon

As a soldier, I was hard-wired to seek meaning and purpose. Gray’s philosophy helped me unhook from utopia and find peaceBy Andy OwenRead at Aeon

The ethical life means being good to ourselves, to others, and to the world. But how do you choose if these demands compete?By Irene McMullinRead at Aeon

Surveillance capitalism tracks everything we do and say, and sells that data. To save ‘free markets’, Big Tech must be stoppedBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon

How a country used myth and mystique to tempt global investors – and seeded a toxic Hindu nationalism in the processBy Ravinder KaurRead at Aeon

Gentle, persuasive acts of protest: Gordon Parks used his camera as a ‘weapon’ for empathy with America’s poor and powerlessBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon

A powerful cadre of scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer forBy Charlotte SleighRead at Aeon

A day in the life of Maria who lives on the Camino de Santiago route in Spain and counts the pilgrims as they passBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon

Boned, spined, spiked, corkscrewed or double-headed: why did so much variety arise when a simple tube would do?By Emily WillinghamRead at Aeon

Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilisation might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?By Nick Bostrom & Matthew van der MerweRead at Aeon

‘It’s a trip just being out’: at the local Greyhound bus station with newly released men from the Texas State PenitentiaryBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon

Susan Stebbing’s little Pelican book on philosophy had a big aim: giving everybody tools to think clearly for themselvesBy Peter WestRead at Aeon

One aimless summer in Colorado, two brothers talk about girls, death and leaving home in the shadow of their fractured familyBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon