Society
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Political philosophy
Beyond the veil – what rules would govern John Rawls’s ‘realistic Utopia’?
6 minutes
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Art
‘If you’re creative, why can’t you create a solution?’ One artist’s imaginative activism
17 minutes
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Biography and memoir
A gentle soul in an oppressive land – Bonnie’s story of life in America
11 minutes
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Race and ethnicity
Battling implicit bias
Training is a cheap solution to a hard problem. It is the systems that allow for biased behaviour that need to change
Jeffrey To
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Fairness and equality
A tragicomic account of how the Los Angeles Police Department blew up a city block
19 minutes
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Thinkers and theories
The Indian pragmatist
Ambedkar was not only a politician, but a profound thinker whose philosophy of democracy challenged the caste system
Scott R Stroud
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Fairness and equality
To build a fair society, we must first be able to envision it. John Rawls can help
64 minutes
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Social psychology
Don’t let them fool you
The fear of being duped is ubiquitous, but excessive scepticism makes it harder to trust one another and cooperate
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
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Virtues and vices
The virtue of discretion
When the rules break down, you must judge what to do on your own. Discretion is necessary for navigating the muddle of life
Lorraine Daston
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Human rights and justice
Thirty years after one teenager shot another, is it time to forgive?
28 minutes
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Human rights and justice
Abolish life sentences
It is unjust, cruel and profoundly wasteful to consign a person to prison for life. A decent society must not do it
Judith Lichtenberg
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Fairness and equality
How the first woman of colour to be elected to the US Congress remade education
21 minutes
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Economics
We all play by economic rules set by men. What could a feminist economics look like?
30 minutes
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Poverty and development
A fairly fed world
Last year, 200 million children did not get enough to eat, yet it would be cheap and easy for the world to feed them all
Sharman Apt Russell
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Fairness and equality
Poor sleep
Being on-call, out-of-sync and underslept is not just personal but a pervasive political injustice. Bold change is needed
Jonathan White
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Fairness and equality
With barely a possession to his name, Rabbit builds a life around fighting corruption
10 minutes
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Politics and government
High crimes and cabals
The official definition of corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain – does little to capture the reality
Sudhir Chella Rajan
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Bioethics
We are all frail
We should be able to acknowledge that disabilities can cause pain and suffering without disabled people feeling dehumanised
Tom Shakespeare
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Economics
Stock-picking for humanity
Everyone on the planet has a stake in making investment more ethical. What’s new is that they have the power to do so too
Ellen Quigley
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Human rights and justice
How did the NRA transform from a sporting group to a mighty political force?
10 minutes
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Personality
Meet the British bouncer in LA on an expired visa who has no time for immigrants
10 minutes
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Demography and migration
The hopes and fears of the migrants selling souvenirs in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower
15 minutes
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Genetics
The genes we’re dealt
The new field of social genomics can be used by progressives to combat racial inequality or by conservatives to excuse it
Erik Parens
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Gender
Angels in the market
The heart-tug tactics of 1950s ads steered white American women away from activism into domesticity. They’re still there
Ellen Wayland-Smith