videoEngineering
Can monumental ‘ice stupas’ help remote Himalayan villages survive?
15 minutes
videoFairness and equality
There’s a dirty side to clean energy in the metal-rich mountains of South Africa
10 minutes
videoFairness and equality
‘To my old master’ – a freed slave answers the request to return to his old plantation
7 minutes
videoFairness and equality
Visit the small Texas community that lives in the shadow of SpaceX launches
14 minutes
essayPolitical philosophy
The order of anarchy
How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory and the work of the late, great James C Scott
Reyko Huang
videoArt
In his poem ‘London’, William Blake crafted a bleak vision of the city he loved
9 minutes
essayHistory of ideas
Philosophy of the people
How two amateur schools pulled a generation of thinkers from the workers and teachers of the 19th-century American Midwest
Joseph M Keegin
videoPolitical philosophy
Beyond the veil – what rules would govern John Rawls’s ‘realistic Utopia’?
6 minutes
videoArt
‘If you’re creative, why can’t you create a solution?’ One artist’s imaginative activism
17 minutes
videoBiography and memoir
A gentle soul in an oppressive land – Bonnie’s story of life in America
11 minutes
essayRace 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
videoFairness and equality
A tragicomic account of how the Los Angeles Police Department blew up a city block
19 minutes
essayThinkers 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
videoFairness and equality
To build a fair society, we must first be able to envision it. John Rawls can help
64 minutes
essaySocial 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
essayVirtues 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
videoHuman rights and justice
Thirty years after one teenager shot another, is it time to forgive?
28 minutes
essayHuman 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
videoFairness and equality
How the first woman of colour to be elected to the US Congress remade education
21 minutes
videoEconomics
We all play by economic rules set by men. What could a feminist economics look like?
30 minutes
essayPoverty 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
essayFairness 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
videoFairness and equality
With barely a possession to his name, Rabbit builds a life around fighting corruption
10 minutes
essayPolitics 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