Idea/ Gender & Sexuality The sexual origins of patriarchy and the radical power of love Paul A Kottman
Essay/ Political Philosophy Against marriage Marriage is what happens when the state gets involved in endorsing and regulating personal relationships. It’s a bad idea Clare Chambers
Essay/ Politics & Government Everyday politics Imperial Chinese conscription shows how ordinary people exercise influential political skills, even in a repressive state Michael Szonyi
Essay/ Politics & Government Anti-anti-communism Millions of Russians and eastern Europeans now believe that they were better off under communism. What does this signify? Kristen R Ghodsee & Scott Sehon
Essay/ Political Philosophy A history of alienation In the postwar period it was understood to be the fundamental malaise of modern life. Why aren’t we ‘alienated’ any more? Martin Jay
Idea/ Gender & Sexuality How do we understand sexual pleasure in this age of ‘consent’? Heidi Matthews
Essay/ History of Ideas Two’s a crowd Zany and earnest, political yet puckish, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari were philosophy’s most improbable duo Edward Thornton
Idea/ Political Philosophy Why Amartya Sen remains the century’s great critic of capitalism Tim Rogan
Essay/ Personality Why we love tyrants Psychoanalysis explains how authoritarians energise hatred, self-pity and delusion while promising heaven on Earth David Livingstone Smith
Essay/ Stories & Literature The good guy/bad guy myth Pop culture today is obsessed with the battle between good and evil. Traditional folktales never were. What changed? Catherine Nichols
Essay/ Political Philosophy The real Adam Smith He might be the poster boy for free-market economics, but that distorts what Adam Smith really thought Paul Sagar
Essay/ History of Ideas 21st-century Marx Each era of modernity has reinvented Marx to fit its needs. How can his analysis of capitalism help us today? Terrell Carver
Essay/ Politics & Government Beyond liberal Islam Western liberalism is not the apex and terminus of human history, and it ought not to serve as the measure of Islam Zaheer Kazmi
Idea/ Nature & Environment Stop boycotting SeaWorld if you care about marine conservation Samantha Muka
Essay/ History of Science Against citizen science It might style itself as a grassroots movement but citizen science is little more than a cheap land-grab by big business Philip Mirowski
Essay/ Social Psychology Alt-Right or jihad? Unleashed by globalisation’s dark side and the collapse of communities, radical Islam and the alt-Right share a common cause Scott Atran
Idea/ Politics & Government Why the idea that the world is in terminal decline is so dangerous Jeremy Adelman
Essay/ Politics & Government Treat people as citizens How a generation of political thinkers has underestimated the abilities of ordinary people and undermined democracy Nicholas Tampio
Idea/ Politics & Government ‘Ketman’ and doublethink: what it costs to comply with tyranny Jacob Mikanowski
Idea/ Political Philosophy Democracy is like fun: you can’t set your mind to having it Robert B Talisse
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
Essay/ Work The quitting economy When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit Ilana Gershon