Essay/History of Science Does science need mavericks? Staid and conformist, science risks losing its creative spark. Does it need more mavericks, or are they part of the problem? Adrian Currie
Essay/Philosophy of Language The death of languages Endangered languages have sentimental value, it's true, but are there good philosophical reasons to preserve them? Rebecca Roache
Video/Family Life ‘From Paris, your mom’: the aching yearning of those exiled from family back in East Asia 13 minutes
Video/History Richard Nixon and a Vietnam War protestor recall a bizarre, pre-dawn encounter in 1970 7 minutes
Essay/Education An unlikely triumph In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance? David Labaree
Video/Philosophy of Religion Why Confucius believed that honouring your ancestors is central to social harmony 2 minutes
Essay/Love & Friendship Why women stray Evolutionary theory says men stray to increase offspring, but what motivates women? Enter the mate-switching hypothesis David Buss
Essay/Philosophy of Mind Change becomes you Being the same person over time is not about holding on to every aspect of your current self but about changing purposefully Kevin Tobia
Essay/Political Philosophy Is taxation theft? The assumption that you own the contents of your pay-packet, although almost universal, is demonstrably confused Philip Goff
Video/Politics & Government In post-war Sierra Leone, independent radio helps communities to reconnect and heal 40 minutes
Essay/War & Conflict The battlefield is dead The traditional arena of war is no more. Will it give way to a perpetual continuum of military and paramilitary violence? Antoine Bousquet
Video/Mathematics Correlations can’t imply causation? Not so fast. A primer on causal networks 4 minutes
Idea/Politics & Government ‘Ketman’ and doublethink: what it costs to comply with tyranny Jacob Mikanowski
Essay/Cosmology Universe in a bubble Maybe we don’t have to speculate about what life is like inside a bubble. It might be the only cosmic reality we know J Richard Gott
Video/Architecture & Landscape An odd and completely unnatural institution, why is the front lawn so beloved by Americans? 2 minutes
Idea/Political Philosophy Democracy is like fun: you can’t set your mind to having it Robert B Talisse
Essay/History The last sacred kings The veneration which surrounds the world’s last sacred kings shows how secular most of political life has become Alan Strathern
Video/Transport From the Red Sea to Hong Kong in 10 minutes – a stunning cargo-ship timelapse 10 minutes
Essay/Neuroscience The kindled brain If each bout of depression, bipolar disorder or PTSD makes another more likely, should sufferers stay on medication for life? Elizabeth Svoboda
Essay/Politics & Government Why nation-states are good The nation-state remains the best foundation for capitalism, and hyper-globalisation risks destroying it Dani Rodrik