Virtues and vices

Philosophy

Is virtue signalling a vice?

Ethics

Human evolution

The Midas Disease

Human rights and justice

Economic history

Stories and literature

Culture

The way of dharma

The ancient world

We must not own animals

Animals and humans

Food and drink

Why you should eat meat

Stoics as activists

Political philosophy

Values and beliefs

Society

In a lion

Education

Sleep and dreams

Psychology

Inside your dreamscape

Technology and the self

Bioethics

We are all frail

Fairness and equality

Democracy is sentimental

Thinkers and theories

Forget morality

A just and loving gaze

Philosophy of religion

Lies and honest mistakes

Information and communication

Should we censor art?

Beauty and aesthetics

Samurai rules for peace and war

History

Computing and artificial intelligence

Science

Should computers run the world?

Future of technology

Philosophers and other animals

The right right thing to do

Meaning and the good life

Pause. Reflect. Think

The inflation of concepts

Cities

The harms of gentrification

Mind your motive: what would Kant do?

When to break a rule

Everything is stories: reviled and maligned

Social psychology

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